Students in Mrs. Carr’s class are asked to make a prediction after reading this passage from White Fang. But the bane of his life was Lip-lip. Larger, older, and stronger, Lip-lip had selected White Fang for his special object of persecution. White Fang fought willingly enough, but he was outclassed. His enemy was too big. Lip-lip became a nightmare to him. Whenever he ventured away from his mother, the bully was sure to appear. Which student prediction is most reasonable?White Fang will grow stronger than Lip-lip in a short time. Lip-lip will have nightmares about White Fang in the future. White Fang will be attacked by Lip-lip the next time he is alone. Lip-lip will be attacked by White Fang the next time he is alone.

what play?

explanation:

there is no play

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.

d. were asked to build a large deck by mrs. woods