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Using Pronouns Correctly — Unit test Answers

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Read the excerpt from Act I of The Importance of Being Earnest.Lady Bracknell. I’m sorry if we are a little late, Algernon, but I was obliged to call on dear Lady Harbury. I hadn’t been there since her poor husband’s death. I never saw a woman so altered; she looks quite twenty years younger. And now I’ll have a cup of tea, and one of those nice cucumber sandwiches you promised me.Algernon. Certainly, Aunt Augusta. [Goes over to tea-table.]Lady Bracknell. Won’t you come and sit here, Gwendolen?

She says that she does not want Gwendolen, an unmarried girl, to sit apart from her guardian.

She says that she disapproves of Algernon as a suitable husband because he ate all of the cucumber sandwiches.

She says that she expects certain treatment because she is a married woman.

She says that Lady Harbury looks younger since her husband’s death.

Read the excerpt from Act I of The Importance of Being Earnest.Algernon. Oh! there is no use speculating on that subject. Divorces are made in Heaven.

the short statement “Oh! there is no use speculating on that subject” offers a surprising take on the subject being discussed.

in the witty statement “Oh! there is no use speculating on that subject,” the writer intentionally describes something as being less than it actually is.

the short, witty statement “Divorces are made in Heaven” offers a surprising take on divorces.

in the short, witty statement “Divorces are made in Heaven,” the writer intentionally describes something as being less than it actually is.

Read this sentence from a report on Oscar Wilde.Oscar Wilde uses humor to critique society and show that there is too much concern about coming from a proper family.

“Where did the charitable gentleman who had a first-class ticket for this seaside resort find you?”

“Yes, Lady Bracknell. I was in a hand-bag—a somewhat large, black leather hand-bag, with handles to it—an ordinary hand-bag in fact.”

“To be born, or at any rate bred, in a hand-bag, whether it had handles or not, seems to me to display a contempt for the ordinary decencies of family life . . .”

“May I ask you then what you would advise me to do? I need hardly say I would do anything in the world to ensure Gwendolen’s happiness.”

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