ANTECEDENTS OF PRONOUN
When
a pronoun is used in a sentence, it must have a corresponding noun at the
beginning before it was used. This particular noun which is referred by the
pronoun that comes later is known as the antecedent
of that pronoun. And there should
be a clear indication of that noun to which the pronoun would be referring to.
Examples :
·
Without Pronoun : Zaki is reading Zaki’s pledoi to
the judges in the main courtroom.
·
With Pronoun :
Zaki is reading him pledoi to the judges in the main courtroom.
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DANGLING CONTRUCTION
A dangling construction is a group of words that the
writer intends to be a modifier for a noun or phrase but the noun or phrase is
not actually in the sentence. Instead, the modifier erroneously describes
a noun or phrase that is in the sentence -- sometimes with
humorous results.
Examples :
· After eating, the waiter gave us the bill. (The
sentence grammar says the waiter did the eating but that's not what the writer
really means.)
· While running, my shoe lost its heel. (I couldn’t slow
that shoe down!)
· To avoid extinction, researchers hope to breed in
captivity.
