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literary works. 
2. Patrick Brontë was born in Ireland but worked as a parish curate in Haworth, England, during
all of 
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adult life.
3. The six Brontë children were badly affected when 
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mother died.
4. Their father tried to find someone to care for 
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children.
5. Four of the girls were sent away to a school not known for 
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healthy atmosphere.
6. Charlotte always believed that the school helped end 
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older sisters’ lives at an
early age.
7. Charlotte, Emily, and Anne, who survived, read voraciously and created fantasy kingdoms in 
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home in Haworth, England.
8. Their brother, frustrated in 
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ambitions to achieve success as a painter or a
writer, soon fell ill.
9. Charlotte tried to establish a school but was disappointed by 
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failure.
10. The girls published poems under pseudonyms, for they did not want readers to know 
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identities.

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Unit 8, Using Pronouns Correctly
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Grammar
Lesson 58
Agreement in Person
A pronoun must agree in person with its antecedent.
Do not use the second-person pronoun you to refer to an antecedent in the third person.
Use a suitable third-person pronoun.
Incorrect:
The Harpers went to the museum, where you saw the fossilized skeletons
of several dinosaurs.
Correct:
The Harpers went to the museum, where they saw the fossilized skeletons
of several dinosaurs.
When a pronoun has another pronoun as its antecedent, be sure the two pronouns agree
in person. Do not shift from they to you, I, to you, or one to you.
Incorrect: