1. Understanding and using referents such as ‘them‘, ‘he, ‘it‘, ‘there‘ and ‘his‘ is important for every skill in language learning.
For example, in the following sentence, the referent is ‘he’.
Mr Green was feeling sad because he had no money. (‘he‘ refers to ‘Mr Green’)
2. Look at the following extract from ‘The Janitor’ (Chapter 1) and find the referents. What are they referring to?
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