TARGETS FOR REVISING
Rationale
Easy to Spot
Harder to Spot
Simple Sentence Syndrome

REVISING PROBLEM:

The writer of a sentence always knows what a given pronoun refers to, thus writers are unlikely to notice possible misinterpretations when re-reading their own writing.


CONSIDER:

The pronoun "they" is three-ways ambiguous in the following example.

After reviewing the team's recommendations,
the committee decided that they needed to do more work.
. . . ,
the committee decided that they needed to do more work.
. . . ,
the committee decided that they needed to do more work.