Cynthia is writing a fictionalized story about the real life of a nurse. she used a scene from her favorite television sitcom as the source material for her research on the life of nurses. how will cynthia’s teacher most likely critique her source material? the teacher will say that cynthia did not make a good choice in source material because a nonfiction source would be more reliable. the teacher will say that cynthia made a good choice in source materials because a fictional source is reliable. the teacher will say that cynthia did not make a good choice in source material but it doesn’t matter because fiction doesn’t require source material. the teacher will say that cynthia made a good choice in source materials but it doesn’t matter because fiction doesn’t require nonfiction source material.

(a) is indeed the correct answer i just took the test and got 100%

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.