Read this sentence.

although the idea was foreign to me, i still thought i would give it a try. which

word is the best synonym for the word “foreign” as it used in this sentence?

frightening

weird

upsetting

unknown

if you don't mind posting the paragraph so i could read it that would a lot. (;

to eliminate ambiguous remote or broad reference it is necessary to focus on anaphoric reference. by definition "anaphoric reference means that a word in a text refers back to other ideas in the text for its meaning." the references should be clear and leave no room for ambiguity.

in the first case the pronoun it probably refers to the car but it has not been mentioned before so we should replace it for the car. in doing so the statement becomes clear.

in sentence number   two   the pronoun he refers to charles dickens the author. yet, the first half of the sentence is about the book a tale of two cities. to repair this it would be better to rephrase the first half : after i read   a tale of two cities by dickens, he so as to remove the remote reference.