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dlone:

Rewrite the sentence to make the pronoun reference clear. She traced her ancestry back to the original president of the college, which her roommate thought was unfair.

SmokeyBrown:

Hi and welcome to QuestionCove! It might be more clear who the pronouns are referring to if we can use more specific names. For example, "Tiff traced her ancestry back... which Tiff's roommate thought was unfair". This approach would require adding additional information, and I'm not sure that's what the question is going for... As it is, the sentence might be misunderstood to mean that the original president's roommate thought the situation was unfair, so we want to make clear who "She" and "her" refers to

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