- - S-6a Pronoun Antecedent Agreement In the passage below, fill in each blank with a PRONOUN that agrees in number, person, and gender with the ANTECEDENT. Answers to even-numbered items can be found at the back of the book. EXAMPLE Frida Kahlo, the daughter of a Spanish and Mexican Indian mother and a German father, 1 gained fame in Mexico and around the world for __________ vividly colored paintings. 2 __________ have been called intense and bizarre, surrealist and realist. Kahlo contracted polio when she was six years old. Then at age eighteen, she was seriously hurt in a bus accident, eventually undergoing thirty-five operations. While recovering, Kahlo 3 4 taught __________ how to paint. Anyone who devotes __________ attention to the many self- portraits by Kahlo can see the enormous physical and psychic pain she endured. In addition to a distinctive artistic style, Kahlo cultivated a striking personal style. For 5 example, __________ favored Mexican Indian clothing over American and European dress, 6 allowed her eyebrows to run into each other across the bridge of __________ nose. Kahlo and the muralist Diego Rivera married in 1929, divorced in 1939, and later remarried. 7 The couple helped each other with __________ work, but the relationship was a tumultuous one. Kahlo’s The Two Fridas (1939) captures the ups and downs of her emotions by showing on one 8 side of the canvas a content Frida, when Rivera loved __________, and on the other side a distraught Frida, after the couple divorced. 9 PBS set up an interactive website to accompany __________ 2005 documentary about 10 Kahlo. When someone clicks paintings on the site, __________ can read in depth about the work. Name: _____________________________________________________ Class/section: ________________________________
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The popularity of artist Frida Kahlo reached new heights in the 1990s, and a feature film about
her was released in 2002.
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- -S-6a Pronoun Antecedent Agreement
In the passage below, fill in each blank with a PRONOUN that agrees in number, person, and
gender with the ANTECEDENT. Answers to even-numbered items can be found at the back of
the book.
EXAMPLE
Frida Kahlo, the daughter of a Spanish and Mexican Indian mother and a German father,
1gained fame in Mexico and around the world for __________ vividly colored paintings.
2__________ have been called intense and bizarre, surrealist and realist.
Kahlo contracted polio when she was six years old. Then at age eighteen, she was seriously
hurt in a bus accident, eventually undergoing thirty-five operations. While recovering, Kahlo
3 4taught __________ how to paint. Anyone who devotes __________ attention to the many self-
portraits by Kahlo can see the enormous physical and psychic pain she endured.
In addition to a distinctive artistic style, Kahlo cultivated a striking personal style. For
5example, __________ favored Mexican Indian clothing over American and European dress,
6allowed her eyebrows to run into each other across the bridge of __________ nose.
Kahlo and the muralist Diego Rivera married in 1929, divorced in 1939, and later remarried.
7The couple helped each other with __________ work, but the relationship was a tumultuous one.
Kahlo’s The Two Fridas (1939) captures the ups and downs of her emotions by showing on one
8side of the canvas a content Frida, when Rivera loved __________, and on the other side a
distraught Frida, after the couple divorced.
9PBS set up an interactive website to accompany __________ 2005 documentary about
10Kahlo. When someone clicks paintings on the site, __________ can read in depth about the
work.
Name: _____________________________________________________ Class/section: ________________________________
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