What a word does the it refer to in this sentence?
I'm reading a book about programming and I've met this sentence:
In addition, the copy module provides the copy.copy() function that returns a copy of the object it is given.

What a word does the it refer to in this sentence? to the obect or to the function?

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What a word does the it refer to in this sentence?
I'm reading a book about programming and I've met this sentence: 
In addition, the copy module provides the copy.copy() function that returns a copy of the object it is given.

What a word does the it refer to in this sentence? to the obect or to the function?

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"It" is referring back to the "copy module". "...the copy module provides the copy.copy() function that returns a copy of the object the copy module is given." Hope this helped! -Kyle

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'It' is referring to the object that is copied using the 'copy.cop() function'. The function makes a copy of the object (it) is given.

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