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ACT English 2.7 Passage Drill 198 Views
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ACT English: Passage Drill Drill 2, Problem 7. Which pronouns properly convey the meaning of the sentence?
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Here's your Shmoop du jour, brought to you by uniform pronouns.
- 00:07
Yeah, they look good in a uniform.
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Check out the following passage and answer the question below.
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I came home, he was
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How would you correct the underlined portion from the passage? Does it need correcting?
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This question requires uniform pronouns that follow the story's sequence of events. We
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know the cat left the house covered in flour, right?
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So the cat must've been the one who came back in out of the rain covered in flour-glue.
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Thus, we can nix choice (A) since the use of the pronoun "I" makes it sound like
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the writer was the one who left the house.
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Choice (B) incorrectly uses the pronoun "I" as well. This time the placement of the pronoun
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indicates that the writer was the one covered in flour-glue.
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By using the pronoun "we," choice (C) indicates that the cat and the writer both
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left the house and both ended up coated in gunk.
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Choice (D) gets it right with the pronoun "he," which tells the story that the cat
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was the one that came home covered in glue
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