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by punitkaur » Fri Oct 09, 2009 4:22 am
From the earliest days of the tribe, kinship determined the way in which Ojibwa society organized its labor, provided access to its resources, and defined rights and obligations involved in the distribution and consumption of those resources.

One of the choices was

1)and defined rights and obligations as they were involved in its distribution and consumption.

OG says this is wrong because, its has no clear referent. I agree with that. But I also think the "they" in "as they were" is also ambiguous. they could refer to resources or rights and obligations. However, the OG just says that "as they were" is unclear and imprecise". So Am I wrong in understanding that "they" is ambiguous?

Sometimes its hard to say whether a pronoun was used ambiguously or not.

Someone please explain.
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by Onell » Wed Nov 16, 2011 11:08 pm
punitkaur wrote:From the earliest days of the tribe, kinship determined the way in which Ojibwa society organized its labor, provided access to its resources, and defined rights and obligations involved in the distribution and consumption of those resources.

One of the choices was

1)and defined rights and obligations as they were involved in its distribution and consumption.

OG says this is wrong because, its has no clear referent. I agree with that. But I also think the "they" in "as they were" is also ambiguous. they could refer to resources or rights and obligations. However, the OG just says that "as they were" is unclear and imprecise". So Am I wrong in understanding that "they" is ambiguous?

Sometimes its hard to say whether a pronoun was used ambiguously or not.

Someone please explain.
can someone reply ? Does AS gives some sense of while and makes the sentence illogical coz it implies " they defined rights and obligation only when they were involved in the distribution and consumption the resources"
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