Our pronouns are sometimes vague, lonely and dangling because we fail to hinge them on a specific unmistakable antecedent. E.g. ‘Shade tells her sister that she is better at mathematics.’ Who does the ...

E.g. ‘Shade tells her sister that she is better at mathematics.’ Who does the pronoun ‘she’ refer to? Shade or her unnamed sister? The rule of thumb says that the pronoun refers to the closest noun.