Practice Questions

Cataphora is frequently used in formal writing to create cohesion, emphasis, or suspense.

There introduces the existence of something and has no antecedent.

She could refer to either Sara or Ayesha, making the reference ambiguous.

It is a dummy subject referring forward to to revise regularly.

In sentences such as It is important to study, it points forward to the infinitive clause.

This summarizes the entire previous event, not a single word.

He refers back to Ali, making it anaphoric rather than cataphoric.

The it has no antecedent; it is a grammatical subject.

Writers often introduce a pronoun before revealing its referent for emphasis.

Anaphora points backward to an already mentioned noun.