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Usage and Punctuation — Quiz

Question 8 • English 2

Read the passage. This spring students are participating in a city-wide history fair. Deciding on a topic wasn’t easy for Mark and Kayla. They had a hard time choosing the topic of his and her project. Students can research any subject they are interested in as long as the subject is related to the city’s history. The decision was easy for Shauna and me. We chose the topic of local architecture after a neighbor gave us a tour of his historic home. My friend prepared a presentation on local architecture for the fair last year. He included a lot of photographs in his presentation. I plan to take my own pictures of interesting old buildings around the city. Which sentence corrects the error in pronoun-antecedent agreement?

Answer
A
I plan to take our own pictures of interesting old buildings around the city.
B
They had a hard time choosing the topic of their project.
C
Students can research any subject they are interested in as long as our subject is related to the city’s history.
D
We included a lot of photographs in his presentation.

Explanation

Mark and Kayla are two people, so the plural pronoun “their” correctly refers to both of them. “Their project” fixes the mismatch in “his and her project.”

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