Intersections of Manifolds

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I am reading the unit on manifolds in Flemings Functions of Several Variables. Here's a snippet from the page:

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I am not sure of the last paragraph: how is the dimension of the intersections of the tangent spaces $r + s - n$. Also, shouldn't it be the case that the intersection of the tangent spaces is empty. If $\mathbf{h}$ belongs to the intersection,

$\mathbf{h} . \text{grad} \mathbf{\Psi} = 0$ and $\mathbf{h} . \text{grad} \mathbf{\Theta} = 0$,

and this will make the gradients to be linearly dependent, which shouldn't be the case.