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In the sentence 'Ella was a girl who could surf but who was afraid to swim,' the word that the relative clauses refer to is which?
Correct Answer:
Girl
Explanation:
The main idea here is how relative clauses attach to a noun to give more detail. The clause who could surf but who was afraid to swim describes someone, and it follows the noun that it’s describing. That noun is a girl—the head of the noun phrase after the verb. The relative pronoun who points back to that noun, not to Ella as a whole or to the verbs themselves. So the word the relative clauses refer to is girl.

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