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Dear Professor,

A SIM card is a plastic card in a mobile phone that stores your personal information and allows you to use the phone.

How can I decide which noun is the antecedent of "that"? It is "phone" or "card"?

Thanks and best regards
Antoine Ghannoum

Common sense here (as in many similar cases) is the only guide.

It is the listener's job to decipher the meaning, or the writer's to rephrase for clarity in the case of suspected ambiguity!