Lab Activities
Lab Activity 17: Pronoun Types
 
Objective: To practice correctly recognizing and using pronouns.

Step 3: For each of the sentences below, select the choice that uses the italicized pronouns correctly. If the original sentence is correct, select "no change."


      1. Both the ancient Greeks and Romans played a game similar to soccer, but most people believe that the modern game of soccer got their start in Scotland and England. 



      2. The game, who was played as far back as the 8th century B.C.E., was much rougher in its early days, when it was acceptable to kick, punch, and bite. 



      3. This early soccer games sometimes involved hundreds of people and might take all day. 



      4. Soccer was played so violently in the Middle Ages that the kings and queens themselfs acted to prevent it from being played. 



      5. In fact, Queen Elizabeth I of England tried to stop the playing by having a law passed; they required that soccer players be "jailed for a week and obliged to do penance in church." 



      6. By 1848, most colleges and universities followed the Cambridge Rules; such tactics as tripping, shin-kicking, and carrying the ball were not allowed by them



      7. However, an alternate set of rules drawn up by the Rugby School was the preference of people at some schools, for who tripping, shin-kicking, and carrying the ball was perfectly fine. 



      8. At a major meeting of clubs and schools in 1863 to establish a single set of rules, the supporters of the Rugby School rules walked out; the other representatives and them could not come to an agreement. 



      9. After the Rugby Rules people left, the 1863 meeting created The Football Association to govern the game of soccer; "football" is the name for it in Britain. 



      10. In 1869, members of The Football Association added a rule which prohibited any handling of the ball; it was them who established the foundation upon which modern soccer is based. 



       

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