Which choice has a clear pronoun reference? A) Dad asked Alex where his shoes were. B) Craig and Bobby like to sit on his front porch. C) Jasmine went to Kayla's house to see her new fish. Eliminate D) Jason and Rohan went over to his house to play video games.
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2-6-2017 A pronoun always refers to the last preceding qualified noun. In all four examples, BOTH preceding nouns are qualified. However, in C it would be odd for Jasmine's new fish to be at Kayla's house, so we assume that the pronoun refers to Kayla. But that still is not very clear, since we have to figure it out according to probabilities. This whole process is called "sorting out the antecedents." BTW, I did not learn that in an English class, I learned it in a bible research class. The only thing I learned in English was "The antecedent is the noun for which the pronoun stands," and no explanation of what that was supposed to mean in any practical sense.
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