Early photographers altered photos for various reasons. Some were artistic. Since photos were black-and-white, photographers often painted them to add color. When
photos were poorly focused, ink could help create better contrast. A family member
who was absent for a family photo could be added to the image. Most photo editing
was done because of the limitations of the photographic technology of the times.
Photographers merely wanted their photos to look more like real life. They were not
trying to fool anyone.
Which sentence from the selection best states the author's thesis?
Early photographers altered photos for various reasons.
O Since photos were black-and-white, photographers often painted them to add color.
Most photo editing was done because of the limitations of the photographic
technology of the times
O They were trying to fool anyone.

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.

1. a field coverd in frost 2. fall. 3.a

when connie willis was 12 years old, her mother died. in january of 2003, willis was interviewed for locus magazine. she recognized that death is a major issue in her writing, specially because the vacuous and appalling things that people tend to say in order to support you when someone you loved dies.

but there is another aspect that i have learned from connie willis's quote. in his famous work "danubio", the italian writer claudio magris describes literature as house removals. some messages reach us, other messages get lost in the labyrinth. those messages which are our inheritance teach us how to live and how to die, how to love and how to hate, how to laugh and how to cry. i think that tales really shape us if we listen to them. maybe through the stories we read we learn how to emphatize with others, knowing that the bells tolls for every each of us.