Usage with They.
The shirts sold well and attracted a certain 'well dressed' type who wear such shirts. They have that debonair quality, whilst reflecting a modern sense of fashion.
When using 'they' in a sentence like this. Does 'they' always have to link directly (as opposed to just relating to the previous sentence as a whole) to an antecendent (a related word or phrase) so that it doesn't get mistaken for something else in the sentence.
Here debonair (a word used to describe a person) could me interpreted as relating to the shirt (even though it's illogical) and so could they.
Top answer
panda blue 483 When using 'they' in a sentence like this. Does like this, does 'they' always have to link directly (as opposed to just relating to the previous sentence as a whole) to an antecendent antecedent (a related word or phrase) so that it doesn't get mistaken for something else in the sentence. Yes.
- panda blue 483 When using 'they' in a sentence like this.
- Does like this, does 'they' always have to link directly (as opposed to just relating to the previous sentence as a whole) to an antecendent antecedent (a related word or phrase) so that it doesn't get mistaken for something else in the sentence.
- Yes.
- The antecedent of 'they' is 'shirts' by syntactic analogy.
- They're the subjects of successive clauses.
Get the Weekly English Kit 📬
New words, one handy idiom, and a 2-minute quiz — delivered to your inbox to keep your streak alive.
panda blue 483When using 'they' in a sentencelike this. Doeslike this, does 'they' always have to link directly (as opposed to just relating to the previous sentence as a whole) to anantecendentantecedent (a related word or phrase) so that it doesn't get mistake
0
Related Questions