Ambigous pronoun

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Ambigous pronoun

by mikeCoolBoy » Fri Apr 24, 2009 1:21 am
Hi everybody this is not a GMAT question but while writing a document I had trouble with a pronoun ambiguity

The sentence is:

Second the mechanism has to prevent developers from firing events that they did not specify.

My question is if they clearly refers to developers or I should repeat developers since they could refer to events.

Thank you in advance.

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by snsubbu » Fri Apr 24, 2009 1:27 am
Relative pronoun (that, who, which) agree with the immediately preceding noun.
Subject and object pronouns (it, they, them) agree with the subject of the preceding clause or sentence