PART A: Which statement best expresses the central idea of the text?

educational segregation in the us prior to brown.

the members of the u.s. supreme court that on may 17, 1954, ruled unanimously that racial segregation in public schools is unconstitutional.

judgment and order of the supreme court for the case.

u.s. circuit judges robert a. katzmann, damon j.

the u.s. supreme court's decision in brown v. board of education marked a turning point in the history of race relations in the united states. on may 17, 1954, the court stripped away constitutional sanctions for segregation by race, and made equal opportunity in education the law of the land.

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.

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