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Ambiguous Pronouns

Ambiguous Pronouns. Ambiguous pronouns make poor subjects for sentences. Writers often use pronouns to avoid repeating nouns. However, when the pronoun doesn’t clearly refer to the noun to its left, it’s confusing (ambiguous). Replace ambiguous pronouns with specific nouns.

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Ambiguous Pronouns

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  1. Ambiguous Pronouns • Ambiguous pronouns make poor subjects for sentences. • Writers often use pronouns to avoid repeating nouns. • However, when the pronoun doesn’t clearly refer to the noun to its left, it’s confusing (ambiguous). • Replace ambiguous pronouns with specific nouns.

  2. Ambiguous Pronouns • Mark this, it, that, there and all other pronouns. • For vague pronouns such as it, look backward to the nearest noun. If the it doesn’t refer to the previous noun, replace the ambiguous pronoun with a noun. • For the words this, these, those, that, ask the question what? This what? These what? Those what? That what? Insert your answer after the pronoun.

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