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anne bradstreet questions

2. why does she have difficulty repaying her father?

4. why does she feel indebted to her father?

5. does she feel this gift is sufficient payment for her father?

I did these same questions and i got most right but i forgot what i put down

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 tree invited all its friends to its lumber party. the party was at saruman's tower in isengard because saruman had killed some trees