The director fired the worker. She was known to be aggressive. |
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Votes: 248
Comments: 3
Added: March 2004
| lovelydove - 16th February 2005 22:30 |
| please tell me the right answer thanks |
| RonBee - 25th November 2006 07:22 |
| It is impossible to tell who "she" refers to. |
| Robert Jones - 7th January 2009 19:10 |
| "She" ought strictly to refer back to the most recent of the possible referrents, i.e. "the worker". However, in practice, the sentence is ambiguous and ought to be rephrased. Of course, if we knew that only one of the two people involved was female, that would remove the ambiguity. |
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