"It’s like in a football game where the team might protect from the opposition by kicking the ball around and not enabling the opposition to get hold of the it." (The Guardian.)
Is "the" modifying the pronoun "it" in the sentence above?
Top answer
"The" is simply an error.
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"The" is simply an error.
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