Question

In the following sentence, which word is the antecedent? Amy and I wanted to go skiing, but she was too busy.

Answer 1

Antecedents are word or phrase that is presented by another word, usually a pronoun.

In the sentence: Amy and I wanted to go skiing, but she was too busy.

The antecedent is ‘she’ which represents ‘Amy’. ‘She’ is a pronoun.

Answer 2

In the sentence Amy and I wanted to go skiing, but she was too busy, the antecedent is Amy.

An antecedent is an expression that gives its meaning to a proform. In this case, the word Amy transfers its meaning to the pronoun she, and the reader can undestand the reference of the pronoun she because it has taken it from the antecedent.