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Identify the pronoun in the following sentence and explain what it refers to:

​​​​​​Dr. Nevitt and I wondered whether these seabirds were being tricked into consuming marine plastic debris because of the way it smelled.

A it, refers to marine plastic debris
B these, refers to seabirds
C the, refers to plastic
D Dr., refers to Nevitt

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A — "it" is the pronoun, and it refers to "marine plastic debris." (In this sentence "these" is a demonstrative determiner modifying "seabirds"; "I" is also a pronoun but the question targets "it.")