1 Which of these summarizes the controlling idea of "A Piece of Chalk"? a. The narrator uses a rock as a piece of white chalk. b. The narrator left his white chalk at home. C. The narrator doesn't know what to draw. D. White is a color, not merely the absence of color, just as mercy and chastity are Ative virtues. E. The narrator requests brown paper from his landlady because he likes the quality of brownness in paper

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b

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.

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