<span>Answer
b. the textual clue that refers to the pronoun</span>
A pronoun antecedent refers to the word that comes before the pronoun.
The pronoun has to agree with the noun especially in number since it is the
part of speech that replaces the noun. In other words, when the pronoun is singular
then that means that the antecedent must also be singular however if the
pronoun is plural so do with the antecedent. In determining whether the
antecedent is singular or not, it is very important to know what words between
the antecedent and the pronoun to ignore.
The last of a series of causes, although not necessarily the proximate cause,of an effect or result... Furthermore,the effect or result produced by the proximate cause would have occurred even if there would be a subsequent action,event or force that contributed to the eventual effect or result
The part of the excerpt that supports the claim that paine believed the human cost of the colonist armed struggle against the british well worth the outcome is : When Paine use empirical evidence to support his claim that Howe's army had decisively defeated the continental army.
Hope this helps
It would be a theory because of its subjective nature
