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Is "It was a brilliant performance delivered in silence worthy of her name" — is this word order acceptable?

It was a brilliant performance worthy of her name.

It was a brilliant performance worthy of her name.

There's no problem here, but what if you then add this:

It was a brilliant performance delivered in silence worthy of her name.

It was a brilliant performance delivered in silence worthy of her name.

What's worthy of the persons name is the performance, but in the second sentence, being the antecedent, it seems like it could be interpreted to mean the silence was worthy of her name. I don't think you could place a comma between "silence"silence and "worthyworthy," either.

I suppose you could say:

Delivered in silence, it was a brilliant performance worthy of her name.

Delivered in silence, it was a brilliant performance worthy of her name.

But I only want to use that as a last resort.

It was a brilliant performance worthy of her name.

There's no problem here, but what if you then add this:

It was a brilliant performance delivered in silence worthy of her name.

What's worthy of the persons name is the performance, but in the second sentence, being the antecedent, it seems like it could be interpreted to mean the silence was worthy of her name. I don't think you could place a comma between "silence" and "worthy," either.

I suppose you could say:

Delivered in silence, it was a brilliant performance worthy of her name.

But I only want to use that as a last resort.

It was a brilliant performance worthy of her name.

There's no problem here, but what if you then add this:

It was a brilliant performance delivered in silence worthy of her name.

What's worthy of the persons name is the performance, but in the second sentence, being the antecedent, it seems like it could be interpreted to mean the silence was worthy of her name. I don't think you could place a comma between silence and worthy, either.

I suppose you could say:

Delivered in silence, it was a brilliant performance worthy of her name.

But I only want to use that as a last resort.

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Is this word order acceptable?

It was a brilliant performance worthy of her name.

There's no problem here, but what if you then add this:

It was a brilliant performance delivered in silence worthy of her name.

What's worthy of the persons name is the performance, but in the second sentence, being the antecedent, it seems like it could be interpreted to mean the silence was worthy of her name. I don't think you could place a comma between "silence" and "worthy," either.

I suppose you could say:

Delivered in silence, it was a brilliant performance worthy of her name.

But I only want to use that as a last resort.