The Tuatha Dé Dannan had recently descended upon Ireland’s emerald shores. Their name means “tribe of the gods,” and gods they w
ere. The Tuatha Dé Dannan came to the coast of Connemara in clouds of mist. Some say they sailed into the harbor like men and burned their boats, creating smoke that spread out across the land. Others swear that they came down from the heavens on dark clouds like a fine rain. These supernatural beings brought with them three days and three nights of complete darkness, a harbinger of changes to come. No one knows the true story of how the Tuatha Dé Dannan arrived in Ireland. But everyone knows how they fought their way across the land until it was theirs. What type of referring pronoun is They from the fourth sentence in the paragraph above? A. Reference Pronoun B.Subject Pronoun
In the fourth sentence of this paragraph, "they" is a (B.) subject pronoun.
A pronoun is a word that is used to replace a noun that, generally, has already been mentioned. Moreover, there are different types of pronouns since each of them serve a different purpose. Some of them are subject pronouns, object pronouns, possessive pronouns and reflexive pronouns. <u>The pronoun "they" in the fourth sentence of this paragraph is a subject pronoun because it is acting as the subject of the verb "sailed" and it is referring to a specific group of people</u> (the Tuatha Dé Dannan).
The author compares the character by comparing the fog to a cat.
Explanation:
The story says, "The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over harbor and city on silent haunches and then moves on." And that shows that we can guess that the author compared it to a cat.
