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

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25 questions

NOT HAPPY WITH YOUR SCORE?

REDO CODE: MQCQGC

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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