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by hemant_rajput » Sat Mar 02, 2013 9:26 am
"The company was forced to cut staff so that it could avoid going out of business entirely."

In the above sentence is "it" is ambiguous or not?
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by dixitnagpal » Sat Mar 02, 2013 12:26 pm
Yes ,Of course.See here it can either refer to staff or company, however intended meaning
of it is to refer to company. So , yes "it" is ambiguous here.
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