Read this excerpt from "a visit of charity": it was mid-morning a very cold, bright day. holding a potted plant before her, a girl of fourteen jumped off the bus in front of the old ladies' home, on the outskirts of town. from which point of view is this excerpt being told? a. fourth person b. second person c. first person d. third person

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.