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TSI Writing: Matching Pronouns to their References 2 Views

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Select the best version of the italicized part of the sentence. If you think the original sentence is best, choose the first answer.

In most countries around the world, they have laws that allow women to serve in the military.

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Okay sy shmoop offers another sentence up here for slicing
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and dicing and editing you know let in most countries
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around the world they have laws that allow women to
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serve in the military All right most they something's wrong
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We'll never leave up core defenseless pronoun toe defend for

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itself if it's not referring to any previously stated now
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and well there's a good chance it's not the answer
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we're looking for right Well the first part of sense
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is a dependent clause meaning it can't stand on its
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own you know like cheese So our best answer choice
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here isn't it independent clause that doesn't have a reference
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less pronoun right So it's there are laws that allow
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women to serve in the military It's d we're all
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about equality here it's come up in its many forms
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What's not equal here however is the pronoun in this
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sense the ambiguous they doesn't tell us what's being described
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right and be there Well this isn't just about throwing
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in a noun like in sea and calling it a
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day The laws that allow women to serve in the
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military is a dependent clause and sadly too dependent clauses
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Well they don't make a full sentence So that's it
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it's d and yeah we're shmoop
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