Tham khảo tài liệu 'the grammar book teacher course part 112', ngoại ngữ, ngữ pháp tiếng anh phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | Appendix 785 h. reflexive pronoun I bought myself a new dress. i. indefinite compound pronoun No one likes a poor loser. j. singular they Anyone using the beach after 5 . does so at their own risk. k. k possessive Erin s voice was the loudest in the room. l. of possessive The title of the story was The Lottery. 2. a. The of possessive is preferred here because the room is inanimate and docs not perform an action. b. Him is an object pronoun being used where the subject pronoun he should be used. c. Mines is the incorrect form of this possessive pronoun. It should be mine. This is perhaps an overgen-eralization error since the other possessive pronouns end in s. d. The last pronoun in the sentence should be the object pronoun me since it is the object of the preposition besides. 3. a. My friend s house is the correct form of an animate possessor especially here where the possessor is not a long or complex NP. b. The third poison singular masculine reflexive pronoun is himself. This is perhaps an overgencraliza-tion error since other reflexive pronouns are formed with the possessive determiner followed by self or selves such as myself or ourselves. c. The student neglected to use the k possessive form to mark Mary as the possessor. d. The subject Everybody like all the other compound indefinite pronouns requires a singular verb. e. The reflexive pronoun themselves has been used implying that I-eo hit himself and Hugo hit himself when presumably the reciprocal pronoun each olheris what was intended . Leo hit Hugo and vice versa unless self-flagcllatinn was the intended meaning . 4. Since the k morpheme and the plural morpheme are both suffixed to NPs and since both pattern the same way phonetically their similarity tnay cause some confusion. Also k is unstressed and may not therefore be perceived by students. In other words khas low perceptual saliency. On the other hand some students may perceive k but not be able to produce it because their native language has
