Creative Editing
Chapter 2
Exercise 5
5. Boldface each pronoun in the following sentences. Then, in parenthesis, indicate whether each pronoun is in the nominative, objective or possessive case.
a. An offshore intake pipe sucked up a scuba diver and pulled him 1,650 feet through the duct before depositing him at a nuclear power plant.
b. "I thought I was dead," said William Lamm, 45, who was spear-fishing when he was pulled into the 16-foot diameter, barnacle-studded pipe off Florida Power & Light's St. Lucie nuclear plant on the Atlantic Coast.
c. Lamm said the suction pulled off his mask and diving gloves and ripped his mouthpiece out several times as he moved through the pipe at 7 feet per second.
d. Lamm, a scuba diver for five years, says it will be a long time before he dives again, if at all.
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