Imagine how wearisome a long prose would be if writers had to use the full nouns every time. ![]() They prevent us from having to repeat the nouns. In normal writing, most nouns appear in noun phrases because adding any word (even "a" or "the") to a noun turns it into a noun phrase. (Here, the pronoun "it" replaces the noun clause "why people dislike foxes.") It is because a fox will decimate a chicken coop.
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