Unit Test 3: Section A
PRONOUN REFERENCE
Read the following section in your Bedford Handbook
before you start the exercises:
Section 23. Yes, all of it!
Also, make sure to try out some of the practice problems online with the Hacker website (Dave’s email
is david-holper@redwood.edu for the login). Then go to Grammatical Sentences
and do the exercises under Pronoun Reference. _______________________________________________________________________________________________
(Directions: Correct the
following sentences for errors in pronoun reference. Cross out the incorrect pronoun and write the
correct pronoun on the line to the right.
In some of these sentences you need to decide on an antecedent that the
incorrect pronoun might logically refer to and write the antecedent on the line
to the right.)
1)
The guy was so
clueless that we treated him just like
a blonde
that had used an eraser on his computer. __________________
2)
After working in
the computer lab, Larry looked once, looked
twice,
then stuffed one under his coat and snuck out
with it. Big coat! __________________
3) Living in
the 21th Century, we must get used to
Internet
Spam, the subtleties of a Jerry Springer debate, and
politicians the like of
if we are not to lose our minds. __________________
4)
When three-year-old Winston dug deep inside his bulbous
nose with his
grubby finger and extracted a slimy booger,
it amazed his
brothers and sisters. __________________
5)
Jane, Jennifer, and Justine went to see
300.Afterwards, none
of them could agree if it was
real or not, but
the next day she said it was. __________________
6) In
the Emerald Triangle, you don’t have to have a job
to drive a BMW. __________________
7)
When I read the newspaper, they said that there was
definitely going
to be weather, whether or not it was
the kind they had
predicted. __________________
8)
After brushing with pickle-flavored toothpaste
heavily for
several minutes, Karen looked in the mirror
and admired the
green sheen on them. __________________
9)
Joe and his girlfriend are the ones which tore up my
living room during
my last party. __________________
10)
In Shakespeare’s The Tempest, he
develops a marvelous
character in
Ariel, who is a poetic spirit in the service of
the magician
Prospero. __________________