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📘 Pronoun Reference – Quiz 3
1. Choose the correct sentence:.
A) The economist predicts a rise in production; this prediction is certainly encouraging to all of us looking for jobs. .
B) The economist predicts a rise in production; this is certainly encouraging to all of us looking for jobs.
C) The economist predicts a rise in production, which is certainly encouraging to all of us looking for jobs.
D) None of above.
2. Neither of the actors could remember (his, their) lines correctly.
A) His.
B) Their.
3. In the 1920s, a society woman created a dollhouse and Carrie Stettheimer's artist friends contributed their talents to making it special.
A) Carrie Stettheimer's artist friends.
B) A society woman.
C) A dollhouse.
D) None of above.
4. Do not throw papers on the ground. Recycle _____ .
A) Them.
B) It.
5. Identify the pronoun that replaces the antecedent in the following sentence. Mr. Garcia had spent all winter planning his garden.
A) Garden.
B) Winter.
C) His.
D) Mr. Grace.
6. What is a pronoun?.
A) A person, place, thing, or idea.
B) An action or state of being.
C) A describing word.
D) A word that takes the place of a noun.
7. Which of the following sentences uses pronouns clearly?.
A) When she was forty, Pearl Buck's novel The Good Earth won the Pulitzer prize.
B) When Pearl Buck was forty, her novel The Good Earth won the Pulitzer Prize.
8. Emma and Priscilla made a 100 on their tests. What is the antecedent for their?.
A) Emma and Priscilla.
B) Tests.
C) Emma.
D) Priscilla.
9. The people I admire most are those who manage to solve their own problems.
A) Correct.
B) Incorrect.
10. Jane is a baby and she is too small to eat by _____ .
A) Myself.
B) Herself.
C) Itself.
D) Himself.
11. Take the ring I bought and give it to my grandmother.
A) Incorrect / confusing.
B) Correct / Clear.
12. Water is an exception to many nature's rules because of its unsual properties The word "its" refers to?.
A) Nature's.
B) Water's.
13. Which has a vague pronoun.
A) As Joe was talking to Sam, he started to cry.
B) Amanda took her mother and three couisins to a second hand store to nuy gifts.
C) If you look carefully you can see when the magician puts the card up his sleeve.
D) Will you take me to your leader?.
14. First _____ see a frog.
A) Us.
B) You.
C) Them.
D) We.
15. Danai came to hospital _____ said that "I have a fever.".
A) He.
B) Him.
C) His.
D) Himself.
16. Peter is very lazy. He always copies his friends' homework and never does it by _____ .
A) Yourself.
B) Himself.
C) Yourselves.
D) Myself.
17. The team _____ disagreeing about _____ individual responsibilities on the field. Choose the correct pairing of verb and/or pronoun to fill the blanks in this sentence.
A) Were, their.
B) Was, his.
18. If a person really wants to succeed, they must always work hard.
A) Incorrect.
B) Correct.
19. Choose the correct sentence:.
A) Neither of the drivers has his or her own truck. .
B) Neither of the drivers has its own truck.
C) Neither of the drivers has their own truck.
D) None of above.
20. Ask for instructions about the bathroom when you check into a hotel; not two of _____ are the same!.
A) Those.
B) These.
C) That.
D) This.
21. B. 15.
A) No.
B) Yes.
22. Identify the complete adjective clause.Listen to the platform on which I will base my candidacy.
A) On which I will base my candidacy.
B) On which.
C) On which I will.
D) I will base my candidacy.
23. What is an antecedent?.
A) The word the pronoun is replacing.
B) A Person, Place, Thing, or Idea.
C) An Action Word.
D) A word that describes nouns.
24. Identify the sentence with CORRECT pronoun reference.
A) The United States Army made airships in its hangar in Wingfoot, Ohio.
B) The United States Army had a hangar in Wingfoot, Ohio, where they made airships.
25. Betty prefers eyeglasses to contact lenses because she doesn't have to worry about bugs bouncing off her corneas.
A) Or is the sentence free of pronoun reference errors? .
B) Should you change she doesn't to you don't?.
C) Or should you change she doesn't to people don't?.
D) None of above.