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#GRAMMAR 2.6 PRACTICE (due date: Wednesday, December 7)

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REDO CODE: MQCQGC

PART 1 of 1

DIRECTIONS:
1. Choose the pronoun in parentheses that best completes each sentence. (25 points)
*Select one of the options from the multiple choices listed.
*If the sentence contains a subordinate clause, it is underlined for you.
*NINETEEN of the sentences are who/whoever.
*SIX of the sentences are whom/whomever.
Question 1
1.

(Who, Whom) hasn’t dreamed of traveling around the world?

Question 2
2.

Is there anyone to (who, whom) the life of a traveler doesn’t sound appealing?

Question 3
3.

A woman about (who, whom) few people have heard made this dream come true.

Question 4
4.

Ida Pfeiffer, (who, whom) many consider to have been the first female professional traveler, was born in Vienna, Austria, in 1797.

Question 5
5.

The few women of her time (who, whom) did travel were usually wives of diplomats or missionaries.

Question 6
6.

The thought of an ordinary woman (who, whom) simply went wherever she wanted to go was preposterous!

Question 7
7.

Ida Pfeiffer, (who, whom) grew up in a large family with six brothers, was brave and determined from the very beginning.

Question 8
8.

Ida’s father, (who, whom) had progressive ideas for his time, felt she should receive the same education as her brothers.

Question 9
9.

Ida, to (who, whom) the long petticoats and skirts that girls wore were a bother, often preferred boys’ trousers.

Question 10
10.

When she was twenty-two, Ida married a man (who, whom) was much older than she.

Question 11
11.

Her husband, (who, whom) was a government official, lost his job because of political tensions.

Question 12
12.

Ida and her husband, (who, whom) moved to a small town, separated in 1835.

Question 13
13.

(Who, Whom) could have guessed what lay in store for this amazing woman?

Question 14
14.

Her friends, to (who, whom) she confided her plans, were shocked.

Question 15
15.

They wondered (who, whom) she was to harbor such ambitions!

Question 16
16.

Ida, (who, whom) had conceived a plan to visit the Holy Land, described her trip to friends.

Question 17
17.

Most people of (who, whom) she told agreed that a religious trip was less scandalous for a single woman.

Question 18
18.

However, Ida, (who, whom) kept quiet about her other plans, was also heading to Egypt.

Question 19
19.

(Who, Whom) among her friends didn’t shake their heads when she claimed, “Privation and discomfort had no terrors for me”?

Question 20
20.

Ida, (who, whom) knew that Egypt was a dangerous place, made out her will before she left.

Question 21
21.

Many travelers (who, whom) had explored Egypt had never returned.

Question 22
22.

Ida, (who, whom) spent nine months on her first voyage, did return.

Question 23
23.

Her adventures included an argument with a camel driver (who, whom) she was certain had cheated her.

Question 24
24.

Friends (who, whom) read the diary she kept urged her to publish it.

Question 25
25.

When Ida, (who, whom) sold her book to a publisher in 1846, received money, she embarked on a second trip to Iceland.