Question

11.h.17b. tuesday weekly bell work-december 16th
the following sentence was taken from an act english section. choose the option that best expresses the idea, makes the statement appropriate for standard written english, or is worded most consistently with the style and tone of the sentence as a whole. if you think the original version is best, choose
o change.\
every one of the popular students came into to the class, and then they spent the rest of the time grouping in the corner

• no change
• them spent
• he or she spent
• delete the underlined portion

Explanation:

This is an ACT English question about sentence structure and redundancy. The original sentence has a pronoun "they" that is redundant because the subject "Every one of the popular students" is already clear, and the phrase "them they" is incorrect. Deleting the underlined portion ("they") removes the redundancy and corrects the sentence structure. The other options either don't fix the error ("No change") or introduce new errors ("them spent" has a pronoun - verb agreement issue, "he or she spent" doesn't agree with the plural subject).

Answer:

Delete the underlined portion