SC: pronoun antecedent

The distance between the two runners, which is over 50 meters, cannot be made up with only three laps to go in the race.

As per explanation in the book:
Relative pronoun which is referring to distance

but I think it should refer to runners.

Is my understanding correct?

Had it been who than it must have referred to runners.
so do we need to apply this logic also while deciding antecedent?

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by stubbornp » Wed Oct 08, 2008 9:32 pm

which is.....SVA....it must refers to distance....

is refers to distance..

Hope u got it...

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by SYim » Thu Oct 09, 2008 10:09 am

"Which" never refers to people.

To refer people, it should be "who are.." rather than "which is.."

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by sudeep_ar » Thu Oct 09, 2008 3:17 pm

I think which is referring to 'the distance between the two runners' and not just the 'distance'.

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by stubbornp » Thu Oct 09, 2008 6:18 pm

SYim wrote:"Which" never refers to people.

To refer people, it should be "who are.." rather than "which is.."

just check the bold part ....i mean to say is

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