"Whatever" in coordination

Hi,

Could you tell me if the bracketed part is in coordination with "do" and "eat"？

1. There’s always something different to do or eat or [whatever it happens to be] ( The Cambridge grammar of the English language, p. 1076)

3/3/234:59 PM

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David, ModeratorModerator

Hi, Robby zhu—You've got me. In my opinion, Huddleson & Pullum should have given the sentence an ungrammaticality asterisk. I don't think it works at all.

3/3/2310:55 PM

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Robby zhuMember

I went back to check again to see if I had copied it wrong, but the conclusion is that I haven't. However, since you said it's not quite correct, I'll just leave it be

3/4/235:27 AM

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