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Joined: 12 Oct 2005
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 02, 2006 5:15 am    Post subject: they Reply with quote

Hello everyone.

The following passage is from a news story.
Who does the personal pronoun �they� in the last sentence refer to?

E-mail may have revolutionized our communication, making it faster, easier, more practical. But that doesn't mean the handwritten note is dead. Instead, the act of putting pen to paper seems to have gained in currency. Now, it's what you do to say something special, or heartfelt, or really important.
  It's not a question of being e-mail ignorant. Walker, a history professor in South Carolina, spends lots of time on the Internet. But that's just the point. She could easily e-mail her college friend, Janet, but instead they choose entertaining postcards, and dash off a few personal notes, once or even a few times a week.

(http://metromix.chicagotribune.com/news/celebrity/sns-ap-pen-to-paper,0,3719718.story?coll=mmx-celebrity_heds)

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PostPosted: Thu Mar 02, 2006 6:21 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

They refers to Walker and Janet.

They exchange postcards rather than emails
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