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Directions: Within each sentence select the blank line and choose 5 from the dropdown menu if the preceding pronoun is in the subjective case, from the dropdown menu if it is in the objective case,and P from the dropdown menu if it is in the possessive case. The following passage is taken from On Beauty by Zadie Smith. In the beginning of the novel, Kiki and Howard and two of their children, Zora and Levi,are having breakfast. The family has just received an e-mail from their oldest son, Jerome. In the e-mail, he announces that he wants to marry a girl that he has just met. (1) "How am I ( __ ) meant to react?"said Kikl, sighing. (2)She square ) laid down her knife and reached out for Levi, who was just passing with his bowl.(3) Grabbing her ( square ) robust 15-year old by his denim walstband, she pulled him to her ( __ - ) easily, forcing him down half a foot to her sitting level so that she could tuck the label of his basketball top back inside theycollar.(4) She put her thumbs on each side of his ( __ ) boxer shorts for another readjustment, but he tugged away from her."Morn man..." (5) [Lev's) faux Brooklyn accent belonged to neither Howard nor Klk and had only arrived in Levr's mouth 3 years earlier,as he ( __ ) turned 12. (6) Jerome and Zora had been born in England, Levi in America. (7) But all their ( __ ) various American accents seemed to Howard, in some way artificial- not quite the products of his house or his wife. (B) None,though, was as inexplicable as Levi's.

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Directions: Within each sentence select the blank line and choose 5 from the dropdown menu if the preceding pronoun is in the subjective case, from the dropdown menu if it is in the objective case,and P from the dropdown menu if it is in the possessive case. The following passage is taken from On Beauty by Zadie Smith. In the beginning of the novel, Kiki and Howard and two of their children, Zora and Levi,are having breakfast. The family has just received an e-mail from their oldest son, Jerome. In the e-mail, he announces that he wants to marry a girl that he has just met. (1) "How am I ( __ ) meant to react?"said Kikl, sighing. (2)She square ) laid down her knife and reached out for Levi, who was just passing with his bowl.(3) Grabbing her ( square ) robust 15-year old by his denim walstband, she pulled him to her ( __ - ) easily, forcing him down half a foot to her sitting level so that she could tuck the label of his basketball top back inside theycollar.(4) She put her thumbs on each side of his ( __ ) boxer shorts for another readjustment, but he tugged away from her."Morn man..." (5) [Lev's) faux Brooklyn accent belonged to neither Howard nor Klk and had only arrived in Levr's mouth 3 years earlier,as he ( __ ) turned 12. (6) Jerome and Zora had been born in England, Levi in America. (7) But all their ( __ ) various American accents seemed to Howard, in some way artificial- not quite the products of his house or his wife. (B) None,though, was as inexplicable as Levi's.

Directions: Within each sentence select the blank line and choose 5 from the dropdown menu if the preceding pronoun is in the subjective case,
from the dropdown menu if it is in the objective case,and P from the dropdown menu if it is in the possessive case.
The following passage is taken from On Beauty by Zadie Smith. In the beginning of the novel, Kiki and Howard
and two of their children, Zora and Levi,are having breakfast. The family has just received an e-mail from their
oldest son, Jerome. In the e-mail, he announces that he wants to marry a girl that he has just met.
(1) "How am I ( __ ) meant to react?"said Kikl, sighing. (2)She square  ) laid down her knife
and reached out for Levi, who was just passing with his bowl.(3) Grabbing her ( square  ) robust 15-year
old by his denim walstband, she pulled him to her ( __ - ) easily, forcing him down half a foot to her
sitting level so that she could tuck the label of his basketball top back inside theycollar.(4) She put her thumbs
on each side of his ( __ ) boxer shorts for another readjustment, but he tugged away from her."Morn
man..." (5) [Lev's) faux Brooklyn accent belonged to neither Howard nor Klk and had only arrived in Levr's
mouth 3 years earlier,as he ( __ ) turned 12. (6) Jerome and Zora had been born in England, Levi in
America. (7) But all their ( __ ) various American accents seemed to Howard, in some way artificial-
not quite the products of his house or his wife. (B) None,though, was as inexplicable as Levi's.

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