The author calls miss lottie’s house "the most ramshackle of all our ramshackle homes." it has "rickety frame siding," and is a "gray, rotting thing with no porch." also, miss lottie’s "queer-headed son" sitting on a "squeaky rocking chair" adds to the setting. what can the reader infer based on this description?

a. miss lottie wants her son to repair her house, but he is lazy.

b. the children look up to miss lottie with respect.

c. miss lottie is old and feeble.

d. miss lottie has a low social standing within the community and the children do not fear her.

he thought hans was leaving

at least thats what i think it is

sorry if wrong

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.