Which three sentences show that the events in the passage took place long ago? The girls hoped they were not late for the screening of the first ever color movie in America.

Do you think these gloves will match the green dress I plan to wear this evening?" Crystal asked her sister, Alba.

Look, The New York Telegraph says both the movie stars are coming for the first show, tonight.

I'm glad Papa surprised us with the passes for the screening when we least expected it," Alba said, picking up the newspaper dated September 21, 1917.

The color will simply add life to the screen, unlike our regular black-and-white films.

about what?

lo

eager to consume a lot of food? insatiable appetite?

explanation:

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.