Grammar and Language Workbook

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OLUTION
A
A great coach inspires his or her athletes to be their best on or off the
field.
Use he or she, him or her, and so on, to reword the sentence.
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OLUTION
B
Great coaches inspire their athletes to be their best on or off the field.
Make both the antecedent and the pronoun plural.
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OLUTION
C
Great coaches inspire athletes to be their best on or off the field.
Eliminate the pronoun.
Traditionally, masculine pronouns referred to antecedents that
might have been either male or female.
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ROBLEM
2
A second-person pronoun that refers to a third-person antecedent
ant
Mary and Jodi prefer the new bridle trail because you get long
stretches for galloping.

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Do not use the second-person pronoun you to refer to an antecedent
in the third person.
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OLUTION
A
Mary and Jodi prefer the new bridle trail because they get long
stretches for galloping.
Replace you with the appropriate third-person pronoun.
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OLUTION
B
Mary and Jodi prefer the new bridle trail because the horses have
long stretches for galloping.
Replace you with an appropriate noun.
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ROBLEM
3
Singular indefinite pronouns as antecedents
ant
Each of the women in the boat received a rowing medal for their
victory.
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OLUTION
Each of the women in the boat received a rowing medal for her