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3. Irvin told Tom he needed to lose some weight. Irvin added, “I
think you can lose more weight by exercising than by restricting

food.”

4. Bill did not buy a cell phone because he thought someone

might eavesdrop on your conversations. He had also heard
they caused cancer.

5. Sean saw that someone had left their headlights on. He was

afraid to try to open the door to turn it off because people might

think he was trying to steal the car.

Review Exercise 18-4 Editing a Paragraph

for Pronoun Errors

Underline and correct the error in pronoun agreement, reference, or
point of view in the paragraph following.

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Nell, my roommate, has a King Tut glitter pyramid on her desk, and
when anyone sees it, they can’t resist picking it up and shaking it.
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It is modeled along the lines of those plastic snow globes that you
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see in stores around Christmas. The difference is that they put a
golden replica of Tutankhamen, the boy king, inside a plastic

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