Originally Posted By: olly
Even though 'They often run awayfrom anyone else' is the statement preceding 'It'... Doesn't that add ambiguity?


Life is ambiguous.

Antecedents often do that, in many languages. I suppose English is worse than some other ancient and modern European languages, where the case/number/gender of the antecedent will agree with the pronoun and possibly remove the ambiguity.

I agree it could have been better written (what's the antecedent there!) but the context of the paragraph makes the meaning clear, however.

Last edited by The Pook; 02/28/2008 3:20 AM.