Miss Cheong's E-mail (7/18/07)

Hi Class,



Handouts. These will be used tomorrow. There's no need to answer them now; however, if you would like to, by all means you are welcome to do so. If you can't print it out or if you received this too late you'll just have to copy it from the board tomorrow.


See you,

Miss C.


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Pronoun Antecedent Agreement

1. Emily Brontë published ________ novel, Wuthering Heights, in 1847.
   
2. Emily, Charlotte, and Anne Brontë published _________ collected poems in 1926.
   
3. Langston Hughes published ________ first volume of poetry, The Weary Blues, in 1926.
   
4. Simon J. Ortiz and Diana Chang have also published poems that reflect _________ backgrounds.
   
5. The spruce, because of _______ soft wood, is used to make paper.
   
6. Spruce and aspen are economical to raise because of ______________ rapid growth.
   

Exercise:
Pablo Neruda, Chilean Poet

Like any poet who understands ___________ life and times, Pablo Neruda touched deep emotional chords. At the age of twelve, he met Gabriela Mistral, a famous Chilean poet, who introduced him to some of _________ favorite authors. Both Neruda and Mistral have been honored for __________ achievements; both poets won the Nobel Prize for Literature. When I read Neruda’s beautiful verses about the forests and glaciers of southern Chile, I renewed ______ vow to visit Chile someday. My brother and I want to take a trip to Isla Negra; _______ intention is to visit the house in which Pablo Neruda lived for many years.


Making Pronouns and Antecedents Agree


Exercise:


In each of the following sentences, find each personal pronoun and its antecedent. (Some sentences have more than one personal pronoun.) Then revise the sentence in one or more ways to correct the problem or problems in pronoun-antecedent agreement.


The Art of Raku

1. A person who is good at making pottery may like to test their skills by learning to make raku, a kind of Japanese earthenware.
   
2. For centuries a handful of Japanese raku artists have been perfecting his craft and passing it down from generation to generation.
   
3. Students who wish to learn to make raku will find that the art tests his patience, for the ceramics often break.
   
4. The potter throws their raku bowls, dries them and paints them with glaze, and then fires them one by one in a kiln until they are red-hot.
   
5. A raku expert may also take their glowing pots from the kiln and throw them into cold water to crack the glaze, but in the process their pots often shatter.
   

Making Pronouns and Antecedents Agree


Exercise:


Read the following sentences. Rewrite the parts with the inappropriate use of you by substituting a third-person pronoun or a suitable noun or nouns. You may also have to change other words.

Life in Ancient Greece

1. The ancient Greeks ate only two meals a day. You ate in midmorning and then again at sunset.
   
   __________________________________________
   
2. Men and women in ancient Greece wore tunics. They wore a brown one for work, but you wore a bleached one for special occasions.
   
   __________________________________________
   
3. There were three social classes in Athens, where you might be a citizen, an enslaved person, or a resident alien.
   
   __________________________________________
   
4. The women in ancient Greece led a more restricted life than men did. You spent a great deal of your time in the home.
   
   __________________________________________
   
5. Children in the city of Athens attended school, where you learned to wrestle, handle weapons, sing, read, and write.
   
   __________________________________________
   
6. The ancient Greeks were the first to develop the idea of democracy, and they encouraged you to play an active role in government.
   
   __________________________________________
   
7. Only citizens could participate in government. The ancient Greeks usually denied you citizenship unless your father was a citizen.
   
   __________________________________________
   
8. A person could not own land in ancient Greece unless you were a citizen.
   
   __________________________________________
   
9. The people of ancient Greece valued learning. You could hear the world’s finest orators, philosophers, and poets there.
   
   __________________________________________
   
10. The Greeks were dominant in the eastern Mediterranean for several centuries. You could hardly travel anywhere without seeing their influence.
    
    __________________________________________
    

Source: Glencoe Writer’s Choice (Grammar and Composition)

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