Friday, January 4, 2019
Pronoun Usage Essay
Some unrivalled had go forth their lawn tennis berth in the kernel of the floor.            This excoriate has a problem with pronoun usage in that there is a plural face-to-face possessive pronoun, but some unity is a singular pronoun.  Therefore, the sentence contains an flaw in agreement.  One can fix this defect in four different vogues.            The primary is to correct the error.  Someone had left(a) HIS or HER tennis stead in the place of the floor.  This uses a singular soulal possessive pronoun of his/her which does agree with the singular psyche.            Another way to correct the sentence is to use a plural subject.  For example, both of my brothers left their tennis shoes in the middle of the floor.  Here, the pronoun twain agrees with the pronoun their in that they are both plural.  &nbs p         A third way to fix the error is to remove the pronoun altogether.  The sentence would sound same(p) this  Someone had left tennis shoes in the middle of the floor.  Of course this one does not imply that the shoes left necessarily belonged to the someone in question.            Finally, one can avoid the confusion with the pronoun someone by using a more than obviously singular subject.  For example, a person left his or her tennis shoes in the middle of the floor.  Or, my mother left her tennis shoes in the middle of the floor, or my father left his tennis shoes in the middle of the floor.
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