1. Sample Handmade Responses
to Hale’s Sin and Syntax,
Chapter 2: Pronouns
with corresponding citations from the chapter
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English 4361: English Grammar
Dr. Laurence Musgrove
Department of English and Modern Languages
January 22, 2013
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2. “Unlike nouns, a class of words that is forever morphing and mutating, the list
of pronouns is finite and predictable, subdividing neatly and changed only
slightly since the days of Shakespeare” (32).

3. “Unlike nouns, a class of words that is forever morphing and mutating, the list
of pronouns is finite and predictable, subdividing neatly and changed only
slightly since the days of Shakespeare” (32).

4. “Unlike nouns, a class of words that is forever morphing and mutating, the list
of pronouns is finite and predictable, subdividing neatly and changed only
slightly since the days of Shakespeare” (32).

5. “Unlike nouns, a class of words that is forever morphing and mutating, the list
of pronouns is finite and predictable, subdividing neatly and changed only
slightly since the days of Shakespeare” (32).

6. “Pronouns are proxies for nouns. They stand in willingly when nouns don’t
want to hang around sounding repetitive” (32).

7. “Pronouns are proxies for nouns. They stand in willingly when nouns don’t
want to hang around sounding repetitive” (32).

8. “Pronouns are proxies for nouns. They stand in willingly when nouns don’t
want to hang around sounding repetitive” (32).

9. “Expletive pronouns (it, there) are less sexy than they sound, stepping into a
sentence as subject when the juice of the sentence lurks in the predicate..”
(33).

10. “’Jim and myself, however, were holding out for June’ is hardly a studly
sentence; June would prefer ‘Jim and I’” (34).

11. “Possessive pronouns are all apostrophe-less: my, your, his, her, its. Who’s
and it’s are contractions of who is and it is. Learn this or die” (52).

12. “Your biggest problems with pronouns will come if you lose sight of the
antecedent: when a pronoun drifts away from its antecedent, the entire
meaning gets lost at sea” (44).

13. “Your biggest problems with pronouns will come if you lose sight of the
antecedent: when a pronoun drifts away from its antecedent, the entire
meaning gets lost at sea” (44).

14. “Your biggest problems with pronouns will come if you lose sight of the
antecedent: when a pronoun drifts away from its antecedent, the entire
meaning gets lost at sea” (44).

15. “Your biggest problems with pronouns will come if you lose sight of the
antecedent: when a pronoun drifts away from its antecedent, the entire
meaning gets lost at sea” (44).