Avoiding Errors with Indefinite Pronouns
Directions:
Underline the word that correctly completes each sentence below.
Example:
Everyone (complains, complain) when gas prices go up.
- Most of Benito’s shirts (has, have) at least one pocket.
- Somebody (is, are) addressing all the wedding invitations with a fountain
pen.
- Everyone in the Hundley family (buys, buy) a new toothbrush twice a year.
- Few of my friends (dislikes, dislike) both crunchy peanut butter and the
smooth variety.
- Each of the messages on the answering machine (is, are) for Dody.
- Everybody (benefits, benefit) from getting a flu shot.
- Nobody (remembers, remember) that the space between the thumb and the
first finger is called the purlicue.
- Some of the children (stops, stop) at the ice cream shop every day.
- Nothing (ends, end) the baby’s crying except being rocked in the rocking
chair.
- All of the workers who enter by the main gate (passes, pass) through a
metal detector.
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