Eng. 150

LAST CHANCE FOR GAS FOR UNIT TEST 3

 

Pronoun Reference

 

1) When referring to people, use what subordinate conjunction?

 

2) When referring to things, use what subordinate conjunction?

 

3) In 2003, Dave told a good joke about President Bush.  He was offended.

 

4)  Dating women who want to be treated like princesses can be difficult for untrained men.  This is a real challenge for men. 

 

5) It said in the newspaper that it is going to rain dogs tomorrow.

 

6) When you come to the dorms, you'll see that it is often a zoo on Friday night.

 

7) Which brings up the issue, when is it appropriate to use you?

   

8) In Eureka, they let anyone who wants to be an artist.

 

9) Giving regularly to charities is a practice that takes a certain habit of mind.  This can be somewhat hard to develop if a person has had little practice.

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Subject/verb Agreement

 

10) Jennifer and Karen has the right attitude for school: don’t put off today what you can put off until tomorrow, as long as it doesn’t cost you a letter grade!

 

11) Everybody I know from the club back home support the right to bare arms!

 

12) Each of the students in the class are ready for the test.

 

13) No one who was at the party last Tuesday night remember what happened.

 

14) In the little town in which I grew up, eating pickles and making sauerkraut was two of the favorite past times.

 

15) If a present tense verb ends in "S", it's generally singular/plural (circle one); likewise, if a present tense verb doesn't end in an "S", it's usually singular/plural (circle one).

 

16) Mike or his buddies is at the school this very minute.

 

17) By eliminating prepositional phrases, it makes it easier to see what?

 

18) With either/or and neither/nor, just as with or, look for the subject to the right/left (circle one), because that one will determine the number of the verb.

 

19) Karen and Phil, the couple with the TV looks, is my favorite couple.

 

Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement

 

20) All the ones, the bodies, each and every all are all singular/plural, so they take his or her/their as their possessive pronoun?

 

21) Everyone in class who had been there for Dave's jokes had a hard time not keeping their original sense of humor.

 

22) Each of the students in the class had their own take on what was to come.

 

23) Every person in the ranks knew that their sergeant was a piece of work.

 

24) Bob and Mike always offer advice to their friends about money.

 

25) A plumber with a lot of skill and years of experience is worth their salt so charges a lot of money.

 

26) The reality is that neither time nor advice can bring with them any softening of great pain.

 

27) The gang of hoodlums grumbled to the DA about its arrest.

 

28) A person who uses the Internet constantly and doesn't pay attention to cookies should know that their computer is being watched.

 

29) With collective nouns (groups such as jury, committee, team), are these treated as singular/plural (circle one) when the group acts as a whole?