What does "those" here refer to?
What does "those" here refer to?
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Does "those" have any antecedent? A friend of mine says that "those" refer to the "people" in the first line. But I'm not sure about that.
I mean, even without the first sentence, I think you can still use "those", which proves that "those" doesn't not really refer to the "people" mentioned in the first line, doesn't it?
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Anonymous Does "those" have any antecedent? No. It's a demonstrative pronoun.
- Anonymous Does "those" have any antecedent?
- No.
- It's a demonstrative pronoun.
- In the given context, it can only mean 'people', but that doesn't mean that 'people', used earlier, is an "antecedent".
- Only relative pronouns like 'who' and 'which' have antecedents.
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AnonymousDoes "those" have any antecedent?
No. It's a demonstrative pronoun. In the given context, it can only mean 'people', but that doesn't mean that 'people', used earlier, is an "antecedent". Only relative pronouns like 'who' and 'which' have antecedents.
If you spell out the whole idea, 'who' appears with the antecedent 'people':
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