Question

HELP!! Anne Hutchinson is present," a male voice announced from somewhere in the crowded meetinghouse, momentarily quieting the din that filled its cavernous hall.
To which noun does the pronoun in bold refer?


Question 8 options:


male voice



meetinghouse



Ann Hutchinson



cavernous hall

Answer 1

Answer:

B. meetinghouse

Explanation:

Although nothing is in bold here, I'm assuming that this refers to the pronoun "its".

Pronouns are used to replace nouns or phrases previously mentioned in order to avoid repetition.

Here, basically, we have a voice announcing somewhere in the meeting house which silenced the din that filled meetinghouse's cavernous hall.

So now, looking at the full sentence, we can see that the pronoun "its" replaced the noun "meetinghouse".

The noun replaced with pronoun is called that pronoun's antecedent.