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<p>The language of the Navajo people, like their Apache cousins, is classified in the Athabascan language family.</p>

<p>A. click to choose answer A their
B. click to choose answer B for their
C. click to choose answer C that of its
D. click to choose answer D its
E. click to choose answer E that of their</p>

<p>Let's say you choose the answer "that of their"
The language of the Navajo people, like that of their Apache cousins, is classified in the Athabascan language family.</p>

<p>Right now, "their" is supposedly refering to "Navajo people". However, "Navajo People" is only part of a prepositional phrase of "language", so it is not the subject of the sentence.</p>

<p>Isn't this incorrect pronoun antecednet rule thing?"</p>

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<p>it is kinda parallelism, “that” is the subject, their is just corresponding to “Navajo people”</p>

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<p>It’s a comparison error - you can’t compare a language with people!</p>

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<p>You are missing the point of the OP’s question. He’s bringing up the point that one can’t use a pronoun with an antecedent that is in the possessive case.</p>

<p>However, because the pronoun is also possessive, the rule does not apply here. It would be a mistake if the pronoun were in the objective or subjective cases.</p>

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<p>silverturtle: your answer makes sense, but from where did u learn this grammar rule/ exception from?</p>

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<p>I didn’t really pull it directly from any source. I did, however, apply common grammatical sense (which, I admit, is not very meaningful).</p>

<p>As I interpret it, whereas “Bob’s car is clean, and so is his house” is correct, “Bob’s car is clean, and he is going to the mall” is not.</p>