MGMT Strategy Guide (SC): Page 84, "it"?

[daniel.che.yi.chu]

On page 84:

After the agreement surfaced, the commission dissolved it.

I don't understand why the underlined "it" can refer to "the agreement" since "it" is an object, but "the agreement" is a subject -- I thought we have to make sure that the Parallelism rule is valid?

[StaceyKoprince]

Pronouns don't require parallelism. There aren't any required parallelism markers here (such as the word "and" or certain idioms that require parallelism).

Pronouns also are not required to be in the same case as the noun to which they refer (although they are often in the same case). If there are multiple possible nouns, then the "expected" match is with the noun that is in the same case as the pronoun - but it is not an absolute requirement that pronouns must always be in the same case as the noun.

In your example, you have two singular nouns in the sentence: agreement and commission.

If the pronoun "it" referred to the commission, then the sentence would have to read "the commission dissolved itself" - you'd have to use a referent pronoun. Because the pronoun in the sentence is "it" and not "itself," the only possible antecedent is "agreement."