Deck 28: Consistent Person

Question 1

For each of the following sentences, select the pronoun that is consistent in person with the antecedent. You can fool some people, but ______________ can't fool all of them.

A) you
B) we

Answer 1

A

Question 2

For each of the following sentences, select the pronoun that is consistent in person with the antecedent. My brother and I lost ________________ parking place when we drove around the block.

A) his
B) our

Answer 2

B

Question 3

For each of the following sentences, select the pronoun that is consistent in person with the antecedent. A manager should lock up all of _________________ personnel files every night.

A) his or her
B) your

Answer 3

A

Question 4

For each of the following sentences, select the pronoun that is consistent in person with the antecedent. As the soldiers filed past, _____________ were issued new boots.

A) you
B) they

Question 5

For each of the following sentences, select the pronoun that is consistent in person with the antecedent. The herd of zebras moved farther north because _____________ was looking for water.

A) they
B) it

Question 6

For each of the following sentences, select the pronoun that is consistent in person with the antecedent. Our neighbors are packing because _______________ are moving tomorrow.

A) they
B) he or she

Question 7

For each of the following sentences, select the pronoun that is consistent in person with the antecedent. Everyone has to bring _____________ headphones.

A) your
B) his or her

Question 8

For each of the following sentences, select the pronoun that is consistent in person with the antecedent. The floor in the ballroom shone; __________________ had just been polished.

A) she
B) it

Question 9

For each of the following sentences, select the pronoun that is consistent in person with the antecedent. The workers on the dairy farm cleaned the barn before _______________ left for the night.

A) you
B) they

Question 10

For each of the following sentences, select the pronoun that is consistent in person with the antecedent. All of the cell phone companies offered __________________ customers unlimited data on Black Friday.

A) our
B) their

Question 11

For each of the following sentences, select the pronoun that is consistent in person with the antecedent. When I bike, _______________ stay away from truck routes.

A) you
B) I

Question 12

For each of the following sentences, select the pronoun that is consistent in person with the antecedent. When you look around the office, ______________ can see the improvements.

A) you
B) we

Question 13

For each of the following sentences, select the pronoun that is consistent in person with the antecedent. Soon after she arrived, Karen made ________ presentation to the panel.

A) her
B) his

Question 14

For each of the following sentences, select the pronoun that is consistent in person with the antecedent. Maxine gave ________________ husband an ultimatum.

A) her
B) his

Question 15

For each of the following sentences, select the pronoun that is consistent in person with the antecedent. As we bowled the final frames, we were excited by ________________ scores.

A) our
B) its

Question 16

For each of the following sentences, select the pronoun that is consistent in person with the antecedent. People in my neighborhood try to keep _______________ lawns mowed.

A) our
B) their

Question 17

For each of the following sentences, select the pronoun that is consistent in person with the antecedent. A person should never give _____________ address to a total stranger.

A) your
B) his or her

Question 18

For each of the following sentences, select the pronoun that is consistent in person with the antecedent. Those moving companies give _______________ customers a 10 percent discount.

A) their
B) its

Question 19

For each of the following sentences, select the pronoun that is consistent in person with the antecedent. The court announced ________________ decision today.

A) our
B) its

Question 20

For each of the following sentences, select the pronoun that is consistent in person with the antecedent. The progress report must be completed tonight since _____________ is due tomorrow.

A) it
B) he

Question 21

The following sentences form a paragraph. Proofread them for inconsistent tense and faulty parallelism. Identify the type of each error in each sentence, or select "correct" if the sentence is free of errors. As many as seven thousand people died in the flash flood, and there were thousands more left homeless.

A) correct
B) inconsistent tense
C) faulty parallelism

Question 22

The following sentences form a paragraph. Proofread them for inconsistent tense and faulty parallelism. Identify the type of each error in each sentence, or select "correct" if the sentence is free of errors. Wooden houses were toppled, smashed, and they were demolished within seconds.

A) correct
B) inconsistent tense
C) faulty parallelism

Question 23

The following sentences form a paragraph. Proofread them for inconsistent tense and faulty parallelism. Identify the type of each error in each sentence, or select "correct" if the sentence is free of errors. The brick buildings of Johnstown, the largest town in the area, were also battered down as panicky citizens fight to get to higher ground.

A) correct
B) inconsistent tense
C) faulty parallelism

Question 24

The following sentences form a paragraph. Proofread them for inconsistent person and faulty parallelism. Identify the type of each error in each sentence, or select "correct" if the sentence is free of errors. Who doesn't love chocolate chip cookies?

A) correct
B) inconsistent person
C) faulty parallelism

Question 25

The following sentences form a paragraph. Proofread them for inconsistent person and faulty parallelism. Identify the type of each error in each sentence, or select "correct" if the sentence is free of errors. Today, they remain the most popular cookie in America.

A) correct
B) inconsistent person
C) faulty parallelism

Question 26

The following sentences form a paragraph. Proofread them for inconsistent person and faulty parallelism. Identify the type of each error in each sentence, or select "correct" if the sentence is free of errors. After the recipe was broadcast on a Boston radio show, chocolate chip cookies become famous.

A) correct
B) inconsistent person
C) faulty parallelism

Question 27

The following sentences form a paragraph. Proofread them for inconsistent person and faulty parallelism. Identify the type of each error in each sentence, or select "correct" if the sentence is free of errors. The innkeeper, Ruth Wakefield, had served traditional desserts such as apple pie, Indian pudding, and there was pumpkin pie, too.

A) correct
B) inconsistent person
C) faulty parallelism

Question 28

The following sentences form a paragraph. Proofread them for inconsistent person and faulty parallelism. Identify the type of each error in each sentence, or select "correct" if the sentence is free of errors. Before 1930, however, you could not have found them on your grocer's shelf. One could not have had the pleasure of biting into a cookie and find hard chips of chocolate.

A) correct
B) inconsistent person
C) faulty parallelism

Question 29

The following sentences form a paragraph. Proofread them for inconsistent tense and faulty parallelism. Identify the type of each error in each sentence, or select "correct" if the sentence is free of errors. The flash flood starts at 3 p.m. on May 31 when the South Fork Dam burst, spilling out more than 20 million tons of water and destroys six Pennsylvania towns.

A) correct
B) inconsistent tense
C) faulty parallelism

Question 30

The following sentences form a paragraph. Proofread them for inconsistent person and faulty parallelism. Identify the type of each error in each sentence, or select "correct" if the sentence is free of errors. Called chocolate crispies, these cookies were so good that customers praised them, and you would frequently ask for the recipe.

A) correct
B) inconsistent person
C) faulty parallelism

Question 31

The following sentences form a paragraph. Proofread them for inconsistent person and faulty parallelism. Identify the type of each error in each sentence, or select "correct" if the sentence is free of errors. In that year, a New England innkeeper invented this treat while developing her inn's menu.

A) correct
B) inconsistent person
C) faulty parallelism

Question 32

The following sentences form a paragraph. Proofread them for inconsistent person and faulty parallelism. Identify the type of each error in each sentence, or select "correct" if the sentence is free of errors. Then one day, she mixed batter for plain butter drop cookies and creatively added chocolate bits.

A) correct
B) inconsistent person
C) faulty parallelism

Question 33

The following sentences form a paragraph. Proofread them for inconsistent tense and faulty parallelism. Identify the type of each error in each sentence, or select "correct" if the sentence is free of errors. People held on to pieces of drifting wood or were sitting on top of their houses as they were swept along at a terrifying speed.

A) correct
B) inconsistent tense
C) faulty parallelism

Question 34

The following sentences form a paragraph. Proofread them for inconsistent tense and faulty parallelism. Identify the type of each error in each sentence, or select "correct" if the sentence is free of errors. The Johnstown flood of 1889 was perhaps the worst flood disaster in the United States in the nineteenth century.

A) correct
B) inconsistent tense
C) faulty parallelism