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2. Vague pronoun reference
Does they refer to the signals or the airwaves? The editing clarifies what is being limited.
What does which refer to? The editing clarifies what employees resented.
A pronoun - a word such as she, yourself, her, it, this, who, or which - should clearly refer to the word or
words it replaces (called the antecedent) elsewhere in the sentence or in a previous sentence. If more than
one word could be the antecedent or if no specific antecedent is present in the sentence, edit to make the
meaning clear.
For practice recognizing and editing this error, go to Exercise Central.
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