Why were many mill workers women and children? a. they enjoyed getting out of their cramped apartments. b. they accepted lower wages than men. c. they petitioned congress to be allowed to work. d. they had more skills and education than men.

B They accepted lower wages than men. so they could save money and pay women less than man other than men they wanted full check and alot of money.

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.