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| From | Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.python |
| Subject | Re: threading |
| Date | 2014-04-10 11:35 +1200 |
| Message-ID | <bqm3paFk4g5U1@mid.individual.net> (permalink) |
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> On 2014-04-09 16:51, Rick Johnson wrote:
>> Again we have the pronoun "it" declared as the very first
>> word of the sentence, however, the referent is missing, and
>> instead must be intuited!
Pronoun referents *always* need to be intuited. There are
no mechanical rules for finding the referent of a pronoun
in an English sentence; you have to figure it out from what
makes the most sense given the context.
> (A
> postcedent is like an antecendent, except that it refers forwards to
> something that follows instead of backwards to something that preceded.)
Then there are even weirder cases, such as "It is raining
today", where the referent ("the weather" in this case) is
never explicitly mentioned at all!
--
Greg
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