The correct answer is option d: merchants
In grammar rules, an antecedent can be identified in a sentence because it is later replaced by a pronoun. An antecedent also refers in a sentence to something that happened in the past.
In the sentence provided as an example, the Venetian 'merchants' is the noun that is later replaced by its respective pronoun (theirs). The verb brought also tells us it was something that happened in the past.
Many people of different class went to the globe theater to watch plays. About 2000 to 3000 where most of them belong to the middle to high class audience pay two or more pennies just to sit in one of the galleries. However, there were also ordinary folks or the low class audience who would pay one penny just to sit in the pit in order to watch the play.
Is there a passage, or any options?
Okay so I might’ve just looked it up . So idk how reliable it is but.... “Santiago loves, respects and finds the creatures of the sea immensely beautiful” and I also got “friends small=pity men-of-war (jellyfish) and shovelnose shark=hate respects birds and the marlin”
So do what you will with that info, hope it helps.