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Can pronoun's antecedant be found in a prepositional phrase?

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kristen.li
 Post subject: Can pronoun's antecedant be found in a prepositional phrase?
 Post Posted: Mon Jul 02, 2012 12:36 am 
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Can antecedent of a pronoun be found in a prepositional phrase? Can ANY NOUN in the sentence act as an antecedent, whether it's the subject, object, in the prepositional phrase, in a modifier?

If that's true, then "parents" in a sentence " ... parents' responsibilities..." cannot be an antecedent simply because it's not a noun...and not because it's a modifier?

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tim
 Post subject: Re: Can pronoun's antecedant be found in a prepositional phrase?
 Post Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2012 7:47 am 
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i would say that 99% of the time you are not going to reach inside a prepositional phrase for an antecedent if the pronoun is not also inside a prepositional phrase. no guarantees that the GMAT won't change this up on you, but 99% seems like pretty good odds to me. :) as for your second question, it sounds like you're making an irrelevant distinction; the main thing to keep in mind is that subject or object pronouns must refer back to a subject or object noun, and a word like "parents'" that has an apostrophe is instead a possessive noun..

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