A BELOW STANDARD PERFORMANCE F) TRAINING FOR OLYMPIC ROWING TEAM TO...

6/ a below standard performance f) Training for Olympic rowing team to start Saturday.

PART 2: DEALING WITH REFERENCE QUESTIONS

These questions ask you to identify referential relationships between the words in the passage. Often,

the relationship is between a pronoun and its antecedent (the word to which the pronoun refers).

Sometimes other kinds of grammatical reference are tested (like which or this).

How to Recognize Reference Questions:

Reference questions look similar to vocabulary questions. In the passage, one word or phrase is

highlighted. Usually the word is a pronoun. Then you are asked:

The word “x”in the passage refers to:

The four answer choices will be words or phrases from the passage. Only one choice is the word to

which the highlighted word refers.

Tips for Reference Questions: