alleryIn "John arrived late because traffic held him up," "him" refers to:
AJohn
Btraffic
Clate
Darrived
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: A. John
1. A pronoun refers back to an antecedent.
2. "Him" stands for a person who was held up.
3. The antecedent is "John", not "traffic" which did the holding up.
**Why not the others:** Traffic held John up, so traffic is not the person referred to, and late and arrived are not nouns that him can replace.
_Source: Wikipedia, "Antecedent (grammar)", section "introduction" (revision 1319133427)_
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