zxwhud wrote:
I’m confused the answer A “it” refer to
I think the first it refer to the “ that he would have to leave town” and the second it refer to “Declaration of Sentiments“ . The it refer to different item, is there any problem with pronoun?
Please think again what the first IT could refer to.
See what becomes of the sentence if we substitute what you suggested:
Quote:
When Elizabeth Cady Stanton composed the Declaration of Sentiments in the early 1840s, her husband stated that that he would have to leave town was so bold that he would have to leave town if she read The Declaration of Sentiments at the Seneca Falls Convention, a landmark event in the women's rights movement in the US.
Whether we look at grammar or meaning, does this version of the sentence work? Is this even a proper sentence?
The grammar rule is that IT should refer to a singular noun. (Except in sentences such as
'It is difficult to remember all the rules': here the IT does not refer to anything).
A second grammar rule is that if we replace the IT with the item to which it refers, we should still have a sentence.
From the meaning point of view, the substitution should make sense. Does it make sense to say that
'he would have to leave town was so bold that he would have to leave town'?
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