Creative Editing
Chapter 2
Exercise 7
7. Delete the incorrect pronoun choices in the following sentences. Add commas where needed to set off nonessential clauses.
a. Three victims were members of a Delaware Army National Guard unit [that, which, who] had just completed [their, its] first week of training.
b. Officer Glenda Jones [who, whom] has been coordinating police patrols in housing developments plagued by drugs, gangs and gambling said most of the problems stem from non-residents.
c. Widely publicized safety breakdowns at the government's nuclear weapons plants are rooted in a perverse devotion to secrecy and poor management, congressional investigators said in a report issued Sunday. The safety problems [that, which] came to light during the past two years were aggravated by a lack of outside scrutiny and effective oversight from the Energy Department [that, which] pays private companies to run the facilities, the report said.
d. He criticized the students [who, whom, that, which] led the demonstrations [that, which] were crushed by army assaults.
e. Eight-year-old Chad Brenner said he would have liked to use the $39,541.55 tax refund check [that, which] was mistakenly mailed to him to buy a new bicycle.
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