What is the best correction for the confusing pronoun in this passage? All the trees in the city park are pretty, but I wish that they would add
some more playing fields so that more sports teams could play at the
same time.
A. Change "All the trees in the city park are' to 'The city park is."
Ο Ο Ο
B. Change they would to the parks department would."
C. Change 'more sports teams to more of them."
D. Change "I wish to "they wish."
E PREVIOUS

hey my good buddy lemme ask are u male or female? ?

the correct answer is the first one.

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.

the answer to the problem is most likely a