COMMON LIT “The Bet” Under the terms of the bet, what kind of contact could the lawyer have with the outside world?
The lawyer may speak with visitors through the little
window.
The lawyer may receive letters.
The lawyer may write orders for anything he desires
but he may not have any human contact.
The lawyer may walk through the door of the lodge to
see human beings.

d. lennie pats too hard, and then panics.

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.