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Anonymous Posted 8 years ago
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Reference exercise

Hello! Would you please help me in this reference exercise? What does it (in bold and underlined in the paragraph) refer to?

Thanks in advance.


People get very nervous when they see the line blurring between advertising and other forms of content; they think advertising is some kind of infection that pollutes the purity of art, ruins objectivity and distracts from the pleasure of entertainment. Yet this is missing the point. Surely

consumers are smart and perfectly aware when they're being sold something; surely people who go to company websites are happy to find worthwhile information there and are capable of distinguishing between a commercial message and an editorial one? In the main, art and journalism have long relied on direct subsidy from private sources. Don't think for a minute that commercial interests didn't enter into it.

  

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anonymous What does it (in bold and underlined in the paragraph) refer to? Nothing is in bold or underlined on my screen.

— Mister Micawber

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  • Nothing is in bold or underlined on my screen.
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anonymousWhat does it (in bold and underlined in the paragraph) refer to?

Nothing is in bold or underlined on my screen.

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Broadly speaking ,'it'refers to the matter being discussed.

Don't think for a minute that commercial interests didn't enter into the direct subsidy of art and journalism by private sources.

Here's a simpler example.

eg Tom wants to marry Mary because she is rich. Love dosn't enter into it.

Clive

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