*Shaking in my shoes*............
Could you perhaps, be mixing your "singulars" and "plurals" here??
Perhaps it might be an improvement to write:
my teenagers put at least that much into research reports, but they would still be vanities if I posted them on FR.
OR
my teenagers put at least that much into a research report, but it would still be a vanity if I posted it on FR.
*Ducking for cover*........
I’d post my teenagers on FR, if I thought someone would give them a job!
We’re having a problem with pronouns in our family right now. My 3rd and 4th sons keep changing numbers and genders. “We can’t eat vegetables!” says Pat, who lives on the pictures in the cookbooks. “James can jump on the sofa whenever she wants to!” says James, who spent the last twelve months as a plural ...
She’s fine. “It [the act of posting the articles on FR] would still be a vanity if I posted them [the articles] on FR.