Does this sentence "it doesn't meet the blind's need who want to read." make sense? [closed]
The example sentence
- *It doesn't meet the blind's need who want to read.
is ungrammatical (that's what the asterisk indicates), because the relative clause who want to read has as antecedent the noun phrase the blind, but it follows a different noun, need, which is the head of the noun phrase the blind's need. So the relative clause, which ought to immediately follow its antecedent, is not in the right place to be understood correctly. That's what makes it ungrammatical.
And moving it around won't help. The blind is actually inflected with the possessive clitic -'s, so you can't put the relative clause right after it with impunity:
- ?It doesn't meet the blind who want to read's need.
If you want to use a relative clause, put its antecedent right before it:
- It doesn't meet the need of the blind who want to read.
This has the unfortunate property of rhyming, but that can be fixed.