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Katrinarc Posted 15 years ago
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Reference of the pronoun "that"

Hello, I'm having trouble to identify what does "that" refer to in this text. Can you help me? Thanks!

Right now, the literary world is better at encouraging this kind of identity. The Internet culture may produce better conversationalists, but the literary culture still produces better students.

It’s better at distinguishing the important from the unimportant, and making the important more prestigious.

Perhaps that will change. Already, more “old-fashioned” outposts are opening up across the Web. It could be that the real debate will not be books versus the Internet but how to build an Internet counterculture that will better attract people to serious learning.
  

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Hi, I'm having trouble to identify what does "that" refer to in this text. Can you help me? Thanks!

  • Hi, I'm having trouble to identify what does "that" refer to in this text.
  • Can you help me?
  • Thanks!
  • Right now, the literary world is better at encouraging this kind of identity.
  • The Internet culture may produce better conversationalists, but the literary culture still produces better students.
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Hi,

I'm having trouble to identify what does "that" refer to in this text. Can you help me? Thanks!

Right now, the literary world is better at encouraging this kind of identity. The Internet culture may produce better conversationalists, but the literary culture still produces better students.

It’s better a
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Hi,

In my opinion, that refers to the two paragraphs preceding the third one; in other words:

that = "Right now, the literary world is better at encouraging this kind of identity. The Internet culture may produce better conversationalists, but the literary culture still produces better students.

It’s better at distinguishing the important from the unimporta

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