<p>I dedicated this whole week just to improve my grammar. I had a 530 in grammar. I did not take a practice test yet. </p>
<p>I am confused about a couple of things from the guide:</p>
<p>Can someone elaborate on errors with Anaphora's?
I read the guide about this but I don't understand it clearly?</p>
<p>thanks!</p>
<p>Anaphora is the use of a word that refers to another word or to a group of words. </p>
<p>There are three main types of anaphora:</p>
<p>1) Exophora: (I once used a fork that could be broken extremely easily.) While I was eating cake, it broke.</p>
<p>Exophora is the use of a word that refers to something not in the given text. If in the writing section you are given a sentence with a pronoun that cannot logically refer to something in the sentence, then it is wrong. This makes sense because you are only given one sentence; you can’t possibly know what an exophoric pronoun refers to without the proper context or referent (there’s nothing in the sentence that the word “it” can logically refer to). Exophora refers to something that the reader is not told about. It is wrong on the SAT.</p>
<p>2) Endophora: John was hungry, so he got something to eat.</p>
<p>Endophora is the use of a word that refers to something mentioned in the text. In this sentence, “he” refers to “John.”</p>
<p>3) Cataphora: If you are craving some, there is food in the kitchen. Even though he was late, John did not miss the lesson because the teacher was late as well.</p>
<p>Cataphora is the use of a word that refers to something that will be mentioned (later) in the text. In these sentences, “some” refers to food, and “he” refers to “John.”</p>
<p>So you know that when you use a pronoun like “he,” “she,” “him,” “her,” and “them,” it has to refer to something specific in the sentence. Sometimes you have an ambiguous pronoun in a sentence with more than one thing that it can refer to. For example, in the sentence I ate a donut and a brownie, and it gave me diarrhea, we don’t know whether “it” refers to “donut” or to “brownie,” so “it” would be ambiguous and therefore incorrect on the SAT.</p>
<p>Crazybandit: thanks alot bro!</p>