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What the pronoun "it" refers to in the following statement please?
"...if we represent the data of the temperature of our city as a function of the days on which it is reached, we will discover that the most extreme temperatures are repeated a few times..." (https://www.bbvaopenmind.com/en/science/leading-figures/gauss-the-prodigious-mathematical-mind/)
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anonymous What does the pronoun "it" refer to in the following statement please? temperature
- anonymous What does the pronoun "it" refer to in the following statement please?
- temperature
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anonymousWhat does the pronoun "it" refer to in the following statement please?
temperature
0it refers to the temperature of our city
"...if we represent the data of the temperature of our city as a function of the days on which the temperature of our city is reached, we will discover that the most extreme temperatures are repeated a few times..." (Source)
0What is reached? "The temperature of our city is reached" makes no sense.
I can't see any likely candidate for the antecedent of "it", so it must be some element mentioned earlier in the discourse.
Where did you find the sentence?
0"...if we represent the data of the temperature of our city as a function of the days on which it is reached, we will discover that the most extreme temperatures are repeated a few times..." (Source)
Yet, the meaning isn't clear to me. The temperature of the city reaches on what, on days? Yes.
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0anonymousWhat does the pronoun "it"refersrefer to in the following statement please?
Temperature.
The text is talking about graphing the maximum* temperature on a given date against the date on which it (the temperature) occurs. That's the definition of
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