English-2
Grade-7
Easy

Question

Identify the antecedent in the following sentence.
The police officer asked the witnesses whether they had seen the culprit.

  1. May
  2. Their
  3. Who
  4. Few

hintHint:

An antecedent is a noun or pronoun to which another noun or pronoun refers.

The correct answer is: Few


    The correct antecedent for the pronoun 'they' is 'the witnesses'.

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