WANTED: Grammar Expert

[pippin_999]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Cindy C." 
<cindysphinx at c...> wrote:

> A major standardized test in the U.S. asked students whether 
there  was an error in grammar in the following sentence:
> 
> "Toni Morrison's genius enables her to create novels that arise 
from  and express the injustices African Americans have 
endured."
<snip>
> What is the error?

The antecedent of "her"  has not been expressed as a noun but 
is instead hidden in the  adjective "Toni Morrison's". This is 
known as a weak reference.


Pippin 
who had to drag out her old grammar school textbook for this