Identify the antecedent for the underlined pronoun in the sentence below.
The boy was excited about his date with Sheila, but he didn't know how it would turn out
*(it) is underlined

A) Boy
b) date
c) Sheila

Respuesta :

The answer is B. date. It is referring to the word date.

Answer: b) date

Explanation: There is no other possible antecedent for "it," since all the other nouns or noun phrases in the context are human beings (the boy as antecedent would take "he" as the subject pronoun, and Sheila would take "she" as the subject pronoun).