Question

Orrect the pronoun errors in this passage. Click on an incorrect pronoun and type the correct pronoun in the text box. Check your spelling and then click Submit. Note: The system will score your response as "incorrect" if you have any spelling, capitalization, punctuation, or spacing errors (e.g. do not add unnecessary spaces).

When my twin brother and me had a birthday, Mom would bake us a cake. (The choice of cake was our's, but Ted and me always wanted chocolate.) Anyhow, Grandma would come over and maybe some friends and cousins. They'd sing happy birthday to Ted and I, we'd blow out the candles, and everyone would have cake and ice cream. Birthdays are a lot different today. The four-year-old boy who lives in the apartment above our's had a Chuck E. Cheese party. Him and several friends went to a Chuck E. Cheese restaurant where they had pizza, prizes, and a clown. A friend's daughter had a theme party when she turned seven. The choice of party theme was her's: dress up, tea time, ballerina, Disney, or beach. Once that decision was made, the professional party planner took over, at a cost of $25 per child. Someone else gave his child a scuba diving birthday party--in a heated pool, of course. Apparently, children compete by using their parties. They are afraid that friends won't come to their's if the parties are not unusual enough. Between you and I, this extravagance isn't healthy. Giving them kinds of parties can't be teaching children good values.

Answer 1

When my twin brother and I had a birthday, Mom would bake us a cake. (The choice of cake was our's, but Ted and I always wanted chocolate.) Anyhow, Grandma would come over and maybe some friends and cousins. They'd sing happy birthday to Ted and me, we'd blow out the candles, and everyone would have cake and ice cream. Birthdays are a lot different today. The four-year-old boy who lives in the apartment above our's had a Chuck E. Cheese party. He and several friends went to a Chuck E. Cheese restaurant where they had pizza, prizes, and a clown. A friend's daughter had a theme party when she turned seven. The choice of party theme was hers: dress up, tea time, ballerina, Disney, or beach. Once that decision was made, the professional party planner took over, at a cost of $25 per child. Someone else gave his child a scuba diving birthday party--in a heated pool, of course. Apparently, children compete by using their parties. They are afraid that friends won't come to theirs if the parties are not unusual enough. Between you and me, this extravagance isn't healthy. Giving them kinds of parties can't be teaching children good values.

Step-by-step explanation:

"I" and "me" are both first-person personal pronouns with the same definition, but in a different grammatical case. "I" is a nominative pronoun, which refers to the subject of the sentence or to the predicate nominative, while "me" is an object pronoun, which is direct or indirect object to the verb or of a preposition.

e.g. When my twin brother and I had a birthday, Mom would bake us a cake.

In this example, we have two subjects “my twin brother and I”. As it is a subject, the correct pronoun would be I.

The same thing occurs with pronouns he/him.

"He" is pronoun used to replace a noun, while "him" is an object pronoun, used to replace a name of an object in the sentence.

e.g. I love Ben. (= I love him).

e.g. He and several friends went to a Chuck E. Cheese restaurant where they had pizza, prizes, and a clown.

The forms he, she and they are used when the pronoun is the subject of a sentence, while the forms him, her and them are objects of a sentence.

The forms his, her, hers, their and theirs are possessive in nature.

e.g. The choice of party theme was hers: dress up, tea time, ballerina, Disney, or beach.