Which of the following sentences contains a participial phrase? A.
Jacob enjoyed running and biking during the early morning hours.
B.
Running in the snow, Jacob told himself that all of his hard work would be worth it.
C.
Throughout the winter, Jacob ran five times a week for more than three hours.
D.
The cold, snowy weather forced Jacob to run slower and farther.

heritage? culture? religion? gene? trait?

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.

i'm a writer. so i could you with it.