3.3 Locating Referents DO YOU KNOW...? 1. Approximately five items on the TOEFL will test your ability to locate words and phrases that are the referents of pronouns and other words. 2. Referents are words in a passage that other words refer to. Pronouns such as they and it have noun referents; the referents are the nouns that are replaced by the pronouns (See 2.15). Words such as that, these, a..
