Use each word ONCE only. He I It She They We Rosnah sits at her usual table. She has a pencil in her right hand. (11) _______ moves up and down on her drawing paper. Scrunched balls of paper are on the floor. (12) _______ make the room messy but Rosnah has no time to tidy it up. (13) _______ is busy making a birthday card for her brother. It is a surprise. Her brother suddenly comes into the room. "What are you doing?" (14) _______ asks.
Answer (1)
In this exercise, you are provided with a list of pronouns to fill in the blanks in the given passage, where each word must be used exactly once. The main aim is to ensure that the pronouns correctly refer to the nouns or noun phrases in the context of the sentences.
Rosnah sits at her usual table. She has a pencil in her right hand. (11) _______ moves up and down on her drawing paper.
In this sentence, the word 'It' is the correct pronoun for the blank. 'She' refers to Rosnah, while 'It' refers to the pencil which is moving up and down.
Scrunched balls of paper are on the floor. (12) _______ make the room messy but Rosnah has no time to tidy it up.
For this blank, the correct pronoun is 'They'. We use 'They' because it refers to the plural noun 'scrunched balls of paper'.
(13) _______ is busy making a birthday card for her brother. It is a surprise.
Here, the correct pronoun is 'She'. It refers back to Rosnah, who is busy with the card.
Her brother suddenly comes into the room. "What are you doing?" (14) _______ asks.
Finally, the pronoun 'He' fits here to refer to Rosnah's brother, who is asking the question.
These pronouns help the sentences to flow logically by referring back to the appropriate subjects or objects mentioned earlier in the text. The passage effectively uses pronouns to convey actions and descriptions without repetition of the nouns, making the text more readable and engaging.
