TSI Writing: Maintaing a Sentence's Subject Consistency
Select the best version of the italicized part of the sentence. If you think the original sentence is best, choose the first answer.
When we try to play soccer on the school fields on the weekends, the security guards give you a hard time.
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Transcript
him in trouble It's clear that these any kids cams
is playing soccer on an actual field This scene must
have taken place somewhere in europe or latin america but
probably not in america What can't get in trouble though
is the lack of pronoun agreement Sentence needs to preserve
the first person point of view but switched to object
tiv mode in the independent claws Right The security guards
give us a hard time So when we try to
play soccer they give us a bad time Whatever Okay
so that's it The answer is c and the loser
bowl here Well what's less clear is why this sense
refers to the group as we in the first half
And you in the second half like that's Just wrong
Get rid of a the other two options Both use
some bizarre passive construction that well we'll avoid like security
Guards trying to kick us off a soccer field So
get rid of being the The answer is c The
security guards give us a hard time And they should
have given us a yes from uptown So we're done