R&R: Raves and Rants with Amanda Cabot

A Case of Pronouns Challenge

We’re not going to have a rant or even a rave this month. Instead, for a change of pace I’m giving you a quiz or – to make it seem less like we’re in school – a challenge. The challenge is two-fold. First, identify the sentence that uses pronouns correctly. Secondly, find and correct the errors in the others.

HINT: If you need a prompt, check out last month's post on pronouns here. 

Leslie loves comments, so I suggest leaving your responses as comments. I’ll stop in occasionally to see how you’re doing.

1. He filled the golden cup for he and his wife to share.

2. Thanks to whomever had brought it from the cellar we have a good supply of wine.

3. This is the usual time for your father and I to take a walk.

4. Some of he and Uncle Sam’s friends came to visit him.

5. Before anyone realized whom she was, she’d left the party.

6. The employees who planned the conference hadn’t been prepared for our reluctance to attend early morning events.

7. Their granddaughter who they were raising had the curliest hair I’d ever seen.

8. He smiled when he thought about the future with he and Maggie growing old together.

9. She stared at the clock, amazed when she saw that it’s hands had stopped.

10. The agreement between he and James wouldn’t be affected by the merger.

Next month I’ll have another rant for you, this one about the much-maligned passive tense.

~ Amanda

A lifetime of reading and writing, not to mention a host of teachers who believed that good grammar was one of the essentials of life, have given Amanda Cabot such firm opinions about the printed word that I asked her to share some with us in her Raves and Rants posts.  

Although her working career was in Information Technology, Amanda achieved her dream of selling her first novel before her thirtieth birthday and is now the author of more than thirty novels as well as a number of books and articles for Information Technology professionals.  

Her most recent book, A Tender Hope, is the final book of the Cimarron Creek trilogy.
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