ACT English Practice Test: Pronouns Question Preview (ID: 54830)
Pronouns On The ACT English Section.
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I find myself looking forward to the time when my dog and I will be the only ***one's*** on the beach again.
a) NO CHANGE
b) ones’
c) one
d) ones
Joe is seven, living in those two or three years when ***they*** can manage to throw a baseball a few feet but when they're really interested in are things closer at hand: bugs, butterflies, dirt if they're in the infield, grass.
a) A. NO CHANGE
b) children
c) he
d) some of them
A brush holder from the Ch'ing dynasty had carvings that covered every inch of ***their*** surface; the elaborate details included representations of clouds, trees, mountains, and people.
a) NO CHANGE
b) it’s
c) its
d) there
After all, it's not what we know that makes us smart but how ***one chooses*** to use that knowledge.
a) NO CHANGE
b) we choose
c) we chose
d) I chose
Although pharmaceutical companies that began to produce the drug learned that taxol could be extracted from the bark of all species of yew, ***its attention was soon focused*** on the Pacific yew.
a) NO CHANGE
b) it soon focused its attention
c) they soon focused their attention
d) it was soon focused
Although she narrowly lost bids for the U.S. Senate in 1982 and 1986, Woods's campaigns earned ***their*** national recognition.
a) NO CHANGE
b) herself
c) them
d) her
As early as 1865, there had been proposals for a New York subway, but ***that*** took decades to resolve the many political, financial, and technical challenges.
a) NO CHANGE
b) it
c) those
d) DELETE the underlined portion.
At ten lanes wide, ***they are*** much larger than the bypass loops have driven around Indianapolis and Cincinnati.
a) NO CHANGE
b) it is
c) it was
d) they were
Banneker quickly became engrossed in his studies and began to calculate the paths of the Sun, Mon, and other celestial bodies. Using ***them,*** he predicted a solar eclipse that occurred the next year.
a) NO CHANGE
b) these calculations,
c) those,
d) these things,
Before ***his*** invention, golfers preparing to tee off (hit their first shot) had to shape a mound of moist dirt or sand to raise the golf ball off the turf in order to hit it cleanly.
a) NO CHANGE
b) their
c) its’
d) it’s
Behind the disk stands a granite wall bearing ***their*** inscription:...UNTIL JUSTICE ROLLS DOWN LIKE WATERS AND RIGHTEOUSNESS LIKE A MIGHTY STREAM.
a) NO CHANGE
b) which
c) this
d) it’s
Both prairie and woods were dear to me and important to the development of ***one's*** interactions with the world.
a) NO CHANGE
b) their
c) you
d) my
***By these*** traditional beliefs in the extraordinary powers of jade invested the stone with a significance far beyond its usefulness as a tool or as a medium for artistic expression.
a) NO CHANGE
b) people’s
c) her
d) their
Dickinson's last twenty years of letters—many over 1,500 words in length—reveal the breadth and depth of ***one's*** connection to the world through a wide circle of correspondents.
a) NO CHANGE
b) people’s
c) her
d) their
During dinner, my father asked about the loss of the cobblestone road, which ***Grandpa and him*** had helped lay and maintain.
a) NO CHANGE
b) Grandpa and himself
c) he and Grandpa
d) himself and Grandpa
Eventually, I began to understand that her reason for reminding me of our birthplace is to preserve in me a respect for ***it's*** culture.
a) NO CHANGE
b) its
c) their
d) its’
For one thing, when teenagers go to a theater, ***we must*** buy tickets from a person presumably, responsible enough to deny them admission if they're underage
a) NO CHANGE
b) he or she has to
c) they have to
d) he or she have to
Furthermore, the board offered no evidence to back up ***it's*** claim that such clothing created a negative educational environment.
a) NO CHANGE
b) they’re
c) its
d) ones
Garlanded with gold, masked with dramatic makeup, and barred from walking outside, she looked down at ***her changing city and my*** from a second-floor window.
a) NO CHANGE
b) my changing city and her
c) me and her changing city
d) mine and hers changing city
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