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Description: Pronoun Agreement C2 (M)
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Directions: The question presents a sentence, all or part of which is underlined. Beneath the sentence you will find five ways of phrasing the underlined part. The first of these repeats the original; the other four are different. If you think the original is best, choose the first answer; otherwise choose one of the others.

The troop of performers entertained their audience with some death defying stunts and acrobatics.

  1. entertained their audience with

  2. entertained its audience with

  3. entertained them audience with

  4. entertained these audience with

  5. entertained those audience with

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:

(2) is grammatically the most correct option. (1) is incorrect because the pronoun 'their' is showing possession over 'audience' which is incorrect. (3) is incorrect because of use of an objective pronoun (them) to refer to a noun (troop). (4) and (5) are incorrect because 'these/those' are used to refer to plural nouns.

Directions: The question presents a sentence, all or part of which is underlined. Beneath the sentence you will find five ways of phrasing the underlined part. The first of these repeats the original; the other four are different. If you think the original is best, choose the first answer; otherwise choose one of the others.

Either the hostel warden or the doctor must give their permission for you to leave the hostel after dinner time.

  1. must give their permission for

  2. must give his permission for

  3. must give there permission for

  4. must give them permission for

  5. must give these permission for

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:

(2) is grammatically the most correct option. (1) is incorrect because pronoun agreement is violated here. Two nouns are joined by using 'or'. Hence, a singular pronoun will be used to point out to the nouns. (3) is incorrect because of usage of 'there'. (4) is incorrect because 'them' is an objective pronoun and it's usage is wrong in the sentence. (5) is incorrect because pronoun 'these' is used to refer to plural nouns while the subjects in the sentence are singular.

Directions: This question presents a sentence, all or part of which is underlined. Beneath the sentence you will find five ways of phrasing the underlined part. The first of these repeats the original; the other four are different. If you think the original is best, choose the first answer; otherwise choose one of the others.

At a large university, one will always be able to find a friend who speaks one's language.

  1. who speaks one's language

  2. who speaks yourself language

  3. who speaks language

  4. who do not speaks your language

  5. who spoke your language

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:

The given sentence is correct and needs no further improvement. Pronoun (one's) is correct and it correctly refers to its antecedent 'one'. (2) is incorrect because of wrong pronoun (yourself). (3) is incorrect because there is no pronoun in it. (4) is incorrect because negation has been used in it. (5) is incorrect because the verb (speaks) is converted into past tense.

Directions: The question presents a sentence, all or part of which is underlined. Beneath the sentence you will find five ways of phrasing the underlined part. The first of these repeats the original; the other four are different. If you think the original is best, choose the first answer; otherwise choose one of the others.

The event organizing committee for the Annual College Function received many compliments for their great food arrangement.

  1. for their great food arrangement.

  2. for those great food arrangement.

  3. for some great food arrangement.

  4. for any great food arrangement.

  5. for its great food arrangement.

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Correct Option: E
Explanation:

(5) is grammatically the most correct option. (1) is incorrect because pronoun 'their' is used to refer to living things. (2) is incorrect because pronoun 'those' is used to refer to plural items but the antecedent (event organizing committee) is singular. (3) is incorrect because 'some' is redundant here. (4) is incorrect because usage of 'any' conveys that all the food arrangements made by the committee are great.

Directions: The question presents a sentence, all or part of which is underlined. Beneath the sentence you will find five ways of phrasing the underlined part. The first of these repeats the original; the other four are different. If you think the original is best, choose the first answer; otherwise choose one of the others.

When a captain does not agree with these teammate's decision, he is bound to be frustrated.

  1. agree with these teammate's

  2. agree with this teammate's

  3. agree with some teammate's

  4. agree with his teammates'

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Correct Option: D
Explanation:

(4) is grammatically the most correct option. (1) is incorrect because of usage of 'these', which is used to refer to plural nouns. (2) is incorrect because 'this' is a pointer that can't be derived from the sentence. (3) is incorrect because use of distributive pronoun 'some' with “mate's” is wrong. (5) is incorrect because the distributive pronoun 'a few' is plural but “mate's” is singular.

Directions: The question presents a sentence, all or part of which is underlined. Beneath the sentence you will find five ways of phrasing the underlined part. The first of these repeats the original; the other four are different. If you think the original is best, choose the first answer; otherwise choose one of the others.

The Grey Wolf, a species reintroduced into their native habitat in Yellowstone National Park, has begun to breed naturally there.

  1. reintroduced into their native habitat

  2. reintroduced into it's native habitat

  3. reintroduced into its native habitat

  4. reintroduced into his natural habitat

  5. reintroduced into her natural habitat

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

(3) is the most correct option. (1) is incorrect because of wrong pronoun (their) usage. (2) is incorrect because (it's) is a contraction, not a pronoun. (4) and (5) are incorrect because we never use 'his/her' with animals.

Directions: The question presents a sentence, all or part of which is underlined. Beneath the sentence you will find five ways of phrasing the underlined part. The first of these repeats the original; the other four are different. If you think the original is best, choose the first answer; otherwise choose one of the others.

In old times, a police officer used to be a symbol of authority; today they receive little respect from most people.

  1. today they receive little respect from most people.

  2. today he receives little respect from most people.

  3. today they receives little respect from most people.

  4. today he receive little respect from most people.

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:

(2) is grammatically the most correct option. (1) and (3) are incorrect because of wrong pronoun (they) for a singular antecedent (a police officer). (4) is incorrect because there is a violation of subject verb agreement. Correct usage has to be (a police officer….receives). (5) is incorrect because an objective pronoun (them) is used in place of a possessive.

Directions: The question presents a sentence, all or part of which is underlined. Beneath the sentence you will find five ways of phrasing the underlined part. The first of these repeats the original; the other four are different. If you think the original is best, choose the first answer; otherwise choose one of the others.

Those of us who are over fifty years old should get their blood pressure checked regularly.

  1. get their blood pressure checked regularly.

  2. get our blood pressure checked regularly.

  3. gets yourself blood pressure checked regularly.

  4. got his blood pressure checked regularly.

  5. got her blood pressure checked regularly.

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:

is grammatically the most correct option because the pronoun 'our' correctly refers to the antecedent (us). No other option is correctly referring to the antecedent.

Directions: This question presents a sentence, all or part of which is underlined. Beneath the sentence you will find five ways of phrasing the underlined part. The first of these repeats the original; the other four are different. If you think the original is best, choose the first answer; otherwise choose one of the others.

He asked his supporters to prepare them for shouldering greater responsibilities.

  1. to prepare them for shouldering greater responsibilities.

  2. preparing them for shouldering greater responsibilities.

  3. to prepare themselves for shouldering greater responsibilities.

  4. to prepare them in shouldering greater responsibilities.

  5. to prepare themselves in shouldering greater responsibilities.

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Explanation for (1): The sentence bears error of reflexive pronoun. When the action comes back to the subject, reflexive pronoun has to be used. In this sentence, the action comes back to the supporters and they have to prepare themselves not 'them'.

Explanation for (2): This option does not rectify the error of reflexive pronoun and it also introduces another error (changes 'to prepare' to 'preparing')

Justification for (3): The sentence bears error of reflexive pronoun. When the action comes back to the subject, reflexive pronoun has to be used. In this sentence, the action comes back to the supporters and they have to prepare themselves not 'them'. This option corrects the error of reflexive pronoun.
Explanation for (4): This option does not rectify the error of reflexive pronoun and it also introduces another error ('in shouldering' in place of 'for shouldering)'. Explanation for (5): This option rectifies the error of reflexive pronoun, but it introduces another error ('in shouldering' in place of 'for shouldering)'.

Directions: This question presents a sentence, all or part of which is underlined. Beneath the sentence you will find five ways of phrasing the underlined part. The first of these repeats the original; the other four are different. If you think the original is best, choose the first answer; otherwise choose one of the others.

These days, job opportunities are not as good as it used to be in the early sixties.

  1. These days, job opportunities are not as good as it used to be in the early sixties.

  2. These days, job opportunities are not so good as they used to be in the early sixties.

  3. These days, job opportunities are not as good as they used to be in the early sixties.

  4. These days, job opportunities are not so good as they were in the early sixties.

  5. These days, job opportunities are not good, as it used to be in the early sixties.

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Explanation for (1): Job opportunities are plural and should be followed by plural pronoun 'they', in place of 'it'.

Explanation for (2): This option corrects the error of pronoun usage but incorrectly replaces 'as good as' with 'so good as'.

Justification for (3): Job opportunities are plural and should be followed by plural pronoun 'they', in place of 'it'.
Explanation for (4): This option corrects the error of pronoun usage but incorrectly replaces 'as good as' with 'so good as'. Explanation for (5): This option fails to correct the error of pronoun usage and also makes the sentence awkward.

Directions: This question presents a sentence, all or part of which is underlined. Beneath the sentence you will find five ways of phrasing the underlined part. The first of these repeats the original; the other four are different. If you think the original is best, choose the first answer; otherwise choose one of the others.

Who do you think the company will send abroad for the meeting?

  1. Who do you think the company will send abroad for the meeting?

  2. Who do you think will be sent abroad for the meeting by the company?

  3. Who do you think will the company send abroad for the meeting?

  4. Whom do you think will the company send abroad for the meeting?

  5. Whom do you think the company will send abroad for the meeting?

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Correct Option: E
Explanation:

Explanation for (1): The company is supposed to act, hence, 'whom' is the appropriate use. (Whom will the company send?)

Explanation for (2): This option fails to correct the error of relative pronoun and also unnecessarily turns the question into passive voice.

Explanation for (3): This option fails to correct the error of relative pronoun and also commits the error of double interrogative in the same sentence. The appropriate usage is 'the company will send' and not 'will the company send'.
Explanation for (4): This option corrects the error of relative pronoun but commits the error of double interrogative in the same sentence. The appropriate usage is 'the company will send' and not 'will the company send'. Justification for (5): The company is supposed to act, hence, 'whom' is the appropriate use. (Whom will the company send?)

Directions: This question presents a sentence, all or part of which is underlined. Beneath the sentence you will find five ways of phrasing the underlined part. The first of these repeats the original; the other four are different. If you think the original is best, choose the first answer; otherwise choose one of the others.

He was asked to nominate a director whomever he thought had contributed most to the organization.

  1. whomever he thought had contributed most to the organization.

  2. whomsoever he thought had contributed most to the organization.

  3. whoever he thought was contributing most to the organization.

  4. whoever he thought had contributed most to the organization.

  5. who he thought had contributed the most to the organization.

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Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Explanation for (1): The sentence has error of relative pronoun. When there is direct involvement in the action, relative pronoun 'whoever' should be used. He was assigned to choose a person as director, who had contributed most to the organization.

Explanation for (2):  The option does not rectify the error of relative pronoun. It only replaces 'whom' by 'whomsoever' which is an emphatic pronoun.

Explanation for (3): The option rectifies the error of relative pronoun but introduces another error of tense ('was contributing' in place of 'had contributed').
Justification for (4): When there is direct involvement in the action, relative pronoun 'who' should be used. He was assigned to choose a person as director, who had contributed most to the organization. This option corrects the error of relative pronoun by replacing 'whomever' by 'whoever'. Explanation for (5): Use of 'who' is not entirely incorrect but it fails to emphasize anyone who has contributed. So, the correct expression is 'whoever'.

Directions: This question presents a sentence, all or part of which is underlined. Beneath the sentence you will find five ways of phrasing the underlined part. The first of these repeats the original; the other four are different. If you think the original is best, choose the first answer; otherwise choose one of the others.

The manager and me had to travel a lot to promote our newly designed product.

  1. The manager and me had to travel a lot to promote our newly designed product.

  2. The manager and myself had to travel a lot to promote our newly designed product.

  3. The manager and me have to travel a lot to promote our newly designed product.

  4. The manager and myself have to travel a lot to promote our newly designed product.

  5. The manager and I had to travel a lot to promote our newly designed product.

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Correct Option: E
Explanation:

Explanation for (1): Only subjects act, not objects. Only 'I' can act, not 'me'. 

Explanation for (2): 'Myself' is a reflexive pronoun inappropriate in the context.

Explanation for (3): This option fails to correct the error of pronoun usage and also makes unwarranted changes in tense.
Explanation for (4): 'Myself' is a reflexive pronoun inappropriate in the context. This option also makes unwarranted changes in tense. Justification for (5): Only subjects act, not objects. Only 'I' can act, not 'me'. This option corrects the error of object being taken as a subject.

Directions: This question presents a sentence, all or part of which is underlined. Beneath the sentence you will find five ways of phrasing the underlined part. The first of these repeats the original; the other four are different. If you think the original is best, choose the first answer; otherwise choose one of the others.

She is the best speaker made all the teachers choose her for any declamation contest.

  1. She is the best speaker made all the teachers choose her for any declamation contest.

  2. She is the best speaker that made all the teachers choose her for any declamation contest.

  3. She is the best speaker, which made all the teachers choose her for any declamation contest.

  4. She is the best speaker making all the teachers choose her for any declamation contest.

  5. She is the best speaker. This made all the teachers choose her for any declamation contest.

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Correct Option: E
Explanation:

Explanation for (1): A case of dangling clause in the absence of a demonstrative pronoun. There is no apparent link between the characteristic and the reason why she was chosen.

Explanation for (2): There is no antecedent for 'that', which does not serve the purpose of a demonstrative pronoun here.

Explanation for (3): There is no antecedent for 'which', which does not serve the purpose of a demonstrative pronoun here.
Explanation for (4): The sentence makes no coherent sense. Justification for (5): A case of dangling clause in the absence of a demonstrative pronoun. There is no apparent link between the characteristic and the reason why she was chosen. The link is clear only in option (5), hence it is the answer.

Directions: This question presents a sentence, all or part of which is underlined. Beneath the sentence you will find five ways of phrasing the underlined part. The first of these repeats the original; the other four are different. If you think the original is best, choose the first answer; otherwise choose one of the others. The job will be given to whomever they decide is most likely to fit in their working system.

  1. whomever they decide is most likely to fit in

  2. whomsoever they decide is most likely to fit in

  3. whoever they decide is most likely to fit in

  4. whomever they decide most likely to fit

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Explanation for (1): 'Whom' is used in the objective case, whereas who is used where it is supposed to act. The correct usage is 'whoever…is most likely to fit in'.

Explanation for (2): This option compounds the error of relative pronoun in subjective case.

Justification for (3): 'Whom' is used in the objective case, whereas who is used where it is supposed to act. The correct usage is 'whoever…is most likely to fit in'. (5) is incomplete. This option corrects the error.
Explanation for (4): This option compounds the error of relative pronoun in subjective case and is also incomplete. Explanation for (5): 'Whom' is used in the objective case, whereas who is used where it is supposed to act. The correct usage is 'whoever…is most likely to fit in'. (5) is incomplete.

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