Grammar and Language Workbook

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3. Franciscan father Marcos de Niza and an enslaved person named Estevan entered the area in
1539, and their (explorations’, exploration’s) goal was finding precious metals.
4. (De Niza’s and Estevan’s, De Niza and Estevan’s) journey did not, however, yield any 
discoveries of gold or silver.
5. It did result, though, in the (European’s, Europeans’) settlements in San Juan Pueblo in 1598.
6. In a few (year’s, years’) time, a second settlement was founded in Santa Fe.
7. This city, founded in 1610, would become more than three hundred years later 
(New Mexicos, New Mexico’s) state capital.
8. The (Spaniards’, Spaniard’s) influence grew and today represents one of the state’s three main 
cultural traditions.
9. A second cultural heritage is the Native American tradition, the gift of the many different
(groups, group’s) who had lived in the Southwest long before the arrival of the Spanish.
10. One of the earliest was the Pueblo, who usually built (they’re, their) cities in the form of
connected apartmentlike dwellings.
11. Visitors can study one of these unusual dwellings at Chaco Canyon, where Pueblo ruins
believed to be over 1900 (year’s, years) old still remain.
12. In (today’s, todays’) New Mexico there are nineteen Pueblo, two Apache, and four Navajo 
reservations.
13. Tourists interested in learning more about (men’s and women’s, mens’ and womens’) lives in
these Native American societies can visit many of the reservations.
14. One of the most interesting and beautiful of the (states, state’s) Pueblo villages is near the city
of Taos.
15. (Taos’, Taos’s) reputation as an important art center and home of painter Georgia O’Keeffe also
helps attract visitors.
16. The Navajo reservation shared by New Mexico and neighboring Arizona is the (United States’,
United State’s) largest.
17. (Native Americans’, Native American’s) influence on the culture of New Mexico continues to 
be strong, and they form the second strand in this multicultural state.