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blwings
05-14-2016, 01:34 PM
I've just started reading Phaedra Patrick's <The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper>.
On page 8, I faced the sentence below.

"After over forty years of marriage, it was just him in the house now, with its three bedrooms and the en-suite shower room that grown-up daughter, Lucy, and son, Dan, recommended they had fitted with their pension money."

I understand that the house he is living in now, has three bedrooms and the en-suite shower room was recommended by his daughter and son.
The part I don't understand is what they refer to? Lucy and Dan? or the bedrooms?

Please help me to get through this book.

Calidore
05-14-2016, 03:33 PM
"They" would be the "him" and his late wife.

blwings
05-14-2016, 11:20 PM
"They" would be the "him" and his late wife.

Thank you Calidore, but then I have another question.
If they means he and his wife, doesn't this sentence has additional grammatical factor like ',where' before they?
Sorry for bothering you but my short of English doesn't let me move on to nest line.