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Maggie Griffin's English 100 Lab
Pronouns

After doing the practice exercises on pronouns, Pronouns #1, complete this exercise and submit it when you finish. This exercise will come to me through e-mail, and you will receive credit for this week's lab. Make sure you do the practice exercise before you proceed.

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Read the following sentences and in the appropriate checkbox, determine if the sentence contains a pronoun error or if it is correct. (Hint: Only two of the sentences below are correct.)

1. A person should always be extremely careful when using their chainsaw.
Pronoun Error
Correct

2. Many people flick on the tlelvision as soon as they get in the house, which is a bad habit for you to get into.
Pronoun Error
Correct

3. After I joined the record club, they began sending me stacks of junk mail.
Pronoun Error
Correct

4. Many toys on the market today can be both entertaining and educational.
Pronoun Error
Correct

5. The custard pie was so good that you kept going back for more.
Pronoun Error
Correct

6. Lola told her mother that she was too impatient.
Pronoun Error
Correct

7. A student in the afternoon class has trouble listening to their teacher.
Pronoun Error
Correct

8. No one except a police officer can turn their car around on the freeway.
Pronoun Error
Correct

9. When my broken wrist was set, I could feel the bones grinding against each other.
Pronoun Error
Correct

10. At the bookstore in the mall, they have all of their best sellers in the racks at the front.
Pronoun Error
Correct

The following sentences contains pronoun errors. Pick out the error and in the space below, and write a correct sentence.

11. As we drove through the Bosque del Apache, you could see cranes and snowgeese everywhere.

12. Sam dropped his bowling ball on the floor and broke it.

If you are satisfied with your responses, click the submit button below.

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