Unit 3: Practice B
PRONOUN AGREEMENT
Read the following section in your Bedford Handbook
before you start the exercises:
Section 22. 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-Antecedent Agreement.
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Practice Problems: Fix the pronoun agreement errors.
1) Every student who has any
idea what's important in college should know their rights.
2) Neither Ms. Johnson nor
Ms. Hemp ate their spinach without gagging!
3) Anyone who buys a red
Ferrari should also have a lot of money in their checking account to pay the
tickets.
4) Each girl with a flair for
creativity or a lust for adventure took her kite to the fair.
5) A plumber worth his salt
must know how to fix their clients' pipes—or at least not smoke out of them.
6) Both the cops and the
robbers always hate to pay his or her taxes.
7) One of the penguins in the
zoo escaped last week and has been spending his or her time hiding out at
formal dinner parties.
8) Anyone who knows the
proper etiquette for dating knows that it's their responsibility to be honest,
polite, and charming. Or else eternally
single.
9) The ducks, chickens, and
frogs got together to argue for no more abuse of his or her rights at the
annual joke telling convention.
10) Everybody in class agreed
that if Dave didn't start telling better jokes that it was their right to start
telling their own.