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<p>ok so on one of ACT’s English practice tests it went:</p>

<p>One significant aspect of this relationship was that Susan was perhaps the only reader of Emily’s poems-in-progress. Letters between the two suggest that Susan might frequently have given “feedback on her” work, including some of her most famous poems. </p>

<p>The ones in quotes are underlined
Choices
A No change
B her feedback on Emily’s
C Emily feedback on her
D her feed back on her</p>

<p>Ok I chose A and that may not have been the wisest answer. But the answer seems to me like it could’ve been either B or C. The book said C. Anyone care to explain?</p>

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<p>Given feedback on whose work? IS the her referring to Emily or Susan? C makes that less ambiguous.</p>

3

<p>Well isn’t Susan the only one named before “her” so isn’t it obvious that “her” refers to Susan?</p>

4

<p>But the "her’ refers to Emily, not Susan.</p>

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<p>Wat I’m sooooo confused. The sentence states that Susan is the one who gave feedback to Emily right? So isn’t it Susan’s feedback so the her refers to Susan?</p>

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<p>The work was Emily’s work, so it refers to Emily.</p>

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<p>yea, work refers to Emily’s work, and the feedback refers to Susan’s, s you need to distinguish between the two</p>

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<p>so with a question like this, where there are 2 people and one is being referred to, you should always go for the most specific one (as in specific names), even if its not as fluid (as in when its read) or concise as another choice that “sounds”/looks right?</p>