Pre 2309 Subject Pronoun Agreement

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CHAPTER

SUBJECT
PRONOUN
AGREEMENT

02
SINGULAR SUBJECT & PLURAL SUBJECT

SINGULAR PLURAL
He/ She/ It They
Him/ Her/ It Them
His/ Her/ Its Their
His/ Hers/ Its Theirs

DO NOT MISTAKE SINGULAR SUBJECT FOR PLURAL SUBJECT


Subject Pronoun
The University of Massachusetts It/ it
The radio station It
People They
Doctors/ students/ engineers They
Tables/ Dogs/ Pencils They
Each of the girls She/ They
Everybody/ Everyone (Tricky Singular) He or she
BE AWARE OF TRICKY SINGULAR

TRICKY SINGULARS

Either, Neither, Everyone, Everybody, Someone, Somebody, Anybody, Anything, Each, Anyone
No one, Everything, Little, Much

Example:
his or her
1. Everyone should brush their teeth three times a day.
-

2. The quality of the multivitamins depends entirely on its ingredients.


their

BE AWARE OF TRICKY PRONOUNS (Plural


NOUN PRONOUN
The phenomena of these currents They/ they
Bacteria on the dish They/ it
His criteria for his essay They/ it
Relative Pronouns: who, whom, when,
which, that, where...
Example:

1. The quality of the product is what’s What = the quality


important.
2. Seattle is where I got engaged.
3. This is a story where the hero dies.
Where => Seattle
Where => a story
where a
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place
4. 2014 is when the incident happened. When => 2014
5. The students who ate got sick. Who => the students
6. Studying hard is how I aced my SAT. How => Studying hard

Collective noun: Family, Organization.... It


AMBIGUOUS PRONOUN
Example:
Austin Joe
1. Austin told Joe that he had some spinach in his teeth.

2. Deep-sea exploration has occurred, but they still haven’t found any new species.

QUESTIONS RELATING PRONOUN IN SAT WRITING

1. Subject – Pronoun Agreement 2. Ambiguous Pronoun

Requirement: plural subject Requirement: plural subject

A. They A. They
B. Him B. Him pronoun
C. She C. She
D. His D. The researchers nown
·

Nown Pronoun

3. Possession pheral possessive (possessive adj


possessive pronoun
Identify The Pronoun(S) In A Sentence And Correct Them If Necessary.

1. Everyone that wants a part in the play should report to the auditorium with their script.

2. I still vividly remember that it was Jacksonville, not Orlando, when I got engaged.

3. Someone forgot their credit card in the lobby of the hotel.

4. The insects, though each distinct in their own way, were all equally despised by
Hannah.

5. After a long and contentious deliberation, the soccer association decided that they
would punish the offending player by suspending them for two months.

6. Even though the Center for Disease Control has been charged with the task of
researching methods to prevent harmful diseases, they often publish findings that are
largely ignored by the public.

7. Sometimes, high school students bite off more than they can chew with sports, clubs,
and academics.

8. No parent wants to hear that their child is the one that has a bad reputation at school.

9. The Bronx Zoo in New York City is very much concerned with providing their
animals with a good quality of life by housing them in habitats that reflects its
indigenous environments.

10. Both Lady Gaga and Madonna are known for their stage performance, but she has the
more powerful voice.
1.

Scientists believe that, unlike most other species of


barnacle, turtle barnacles (chelonibia testudinari)
can dissolve the cement-like secretions they use to
attach _______ to a sea turtle shell, enabling the
barnacles to move short distances across the shell’s
surface.

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms


to the conventions of Standard English?

A) it
B) themselves
C) them
D) itself

2.

Researchers believe that moral responses to acts and


actors threatening the moral order may result from
the neural reuse of evolutionarily older disgust
responses to health-threatening contaminants. Thus,
our brains may process feelings of physical
cleanliness the same way as ________ psychological
feelings of “cleanliness.”

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms


to the convention of Standard English?
A) it does
B) it would
C) it might
D) they do
3.

Not only does cleansing seem to help alleviate guilt,


but it may also help people feel less conflicted after
________ made a decision. In another study, Lee
and Schwarz found that cleansing reduces the post-
decisional dissonance effect, a tendency to
overcompensate for the anxiety one feels after
making a decision by rating one’s choice higher than
one had before choosing it.

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms


to the convention of Standard English?
A) he or she has
B) one has
C) you have
D) they have

4.

Although some unpaid internships are important


precursors to successful careers, many others
require interns-generally college students with little
power, to do work not relevant to the occupation in
which they are ostensibly receiving on-the-job
training. Both for the good of participants and out
of self-interest, United States companies must
ensure their internship programs provide
participants with genuine career development. By
definition, ______________ financial sacrifice as
participants must say goodbye to any income
opportunity for the weeks-or months-long training
period. Even for those students who can afford to
do so, their hardship by no means assures

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms


to the convention of Standard English?

A. it requires
B. they require
C. such thing requires
D. unpaid internship requires
5.

A primary goal of business is to make a profit, so


companies might assume that charitable activities
would ________________ bottom lines. On the
contrary, businesses can yield many benefits from
integrating charitable activities into their business
plans. These efforts can include matching employee
donations, providing employees time off to
volunteer.

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms


to the convention of Standard English?
A. detract from there
B. detract from their
C. distract from there
D. distract from their

6.

Even among early pilots, Batten was known for her


determination to set world records and for he
bravery, even reckless, pursuit of a goal. She took
chances that other pilots would not, pushing the
limits of ______ plane’s capabilities. On her second
attempt to fly from England to Australia, Betten
tried to cover the one thousand miles from England
to Rome on the first day. Although she had been
able to travel that distance on her first trip, she had
nearly run out of fuel.

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms


to the convention of Standard English?
A. her
B. his or her
C. their
D. his
7.

If asteroid mining is to become a reality, several


legal and technological hurdles must be overcome.
The Outer Space Treaty of 1967, signed by over
100 countries, bans countries from taking any
celestial bodies into _______ possession; however,
the treaty does not clarify whether it applies to
private companies looking to mine asteroids.

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms


to the convention of Standard English?
A) its
B) its own
C) their
D) one’s

8.

Literary agents estimate that more than half of all


nonfiction books credited to a celebrity or other
public figure are in fact written by ghostwriters,
professional authors who are paid to write other
_______ but whose names never appear on book
covers.

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms


to the conventions of Standard English?
A) people’s stories
B) peoples story’s
C) peoples stories
D) people’s story’s
9.

The importation of the sculpture brought it to the


attention of the US Customs Bureau. The agency’s
view reflected that of the general public: when Bird
in Space came to the United States from France, the
Customs Bureau classified it not as a work of art but
as an industrial object. That classification carried
with it substantial consequences. Works of art could
be imported to the United States duty-free, but
industrial materials were taxed at rates of up to 40
percent of _____purchase value. As a result, Bird in
Space faced an import tax of $229.35 – more than a
third of the $600 Steichen paid for it.

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms


to the conventions of Standard English?
A) their
B) its
C) one’s
D) his
10.

Athens had long been a center for talented artists.


But the Dipylom Master used more varied patterns,
often combining greater than one pattern on a single
piece and thereby turning the available space into a
field for individual creativity. Artists who followed
the Dipylon Master continued his practices and
built on ___________ role as the founder of a new
artistic area.

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms


to the conventions of Standard English?
A. it, solidifying his
B. him, solidifying their
C. them, solidifying their
D. them, solidifying his

11.

The last step is to find a school. Some English


teachers have accidentally found positions, traveling
to a city of their choice and then answering a local
ad, but experts recommend that it is better
________ to establish connections with a school
before travelling. Some TESOL certification
programs are skilled in placing students in jobs and
providing support and connections along the way.

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms


to the conventions of Standard English?
A. for one
B. for someone
C. for them
D. for him
12.

When they arrived, Ali and his fellow drivers Mico


Teodora and Yiorgos Caralambo began to train
both the camels and the US soldiers who would
work with them. Most of ______ were not yet
habituated to work, and Ali, who had gained
experience as a camel driver in the Ottoman
military, was regarded by some as the only person
who would control them.

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms


to the conventions of Standard English?
A. them
B. those
C. the drivers
D. the camels

13.

British scientists James Watson and Francis Crick


won the Nobel Prize in part for their 1953 paper
announcing the double helix structure of DNA, but
it is misleading to say that Watson and Crick
discovered the double helix. _______ findings were
based on a famous X-ray image of DNA fibers,
“Photo 51,” developed by X-ray crystallographer
Rosalind Franklin and her graduate student
Raymond Gosling.

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms


to the conventions of Standard English?
A) They’re
B) It’s
C) Their
D) Its
14.

Florence Nightingale is widely known as a nurse


who cared tirelessly for British soldiers in turkey
during the Crimean War of 1853-1856 and
developed new standards for management and
hygiene in hospitals. Less well known was
Nightingale’s promotion of statistical analysis in the
field of medicine, even though this work may have
been more important to the development of
modern health policy. By compiling medical
statistics and making _____comprehensible and
persuasive, Nightingale showed that such
information can help shape public policy and
improve the quality of health care.

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms


to the conventions of Standard English?
A) it
B) his or hers
C) one
D) them

15.

Public-awareness campaigns about the need to


reduce single-use plastics can be successful, says
researcher Kim Borg of Monash University in
Australia, when these campaigns give consumers a
choice: for example, Japan achieved a 40 percent
reduction in plastic-bag use after cashiers were
instructed to ask customers whether _______
wanted a bag.

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms


to the conventions of Standard English?

A) they
B) one
C) you
D) it

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