@redpoodles: Don’t worry about a thing. I enjoy your posts.
@CrewDad: Nice example of how style can be compromised through strict adherence to grammatical conventions.
Technical clarifications: I initially responded as if I had ended post #4 with “applying,” probably because I had considered it. I was careless not to have taken a fresh look at my own sentence. In post #7 I should have written, “part of a noun clause.”
@CrewDad: That’s a wig?!