Vocabulary 4000 - Noel's ESL eBook Library

120 Vocabulary 4000
Faulty Usage
In Somalia, they have become jaded by the
constant warfare.
This construction is faulty because they does not have an antecedent.
The sentence can be corrected by replacing they with
people:
Better:
In Somalia, people have become jaded by the
constant warfare.
The people of Somalia have become jaded by the
constant warfare.
• In addition to agreeing with its antecedent in number, a pronoun
must agree with its antecedent in person.
Faulty Usage
One enters this world with no responsibilities.
Then comes school, then work, then marriage and
family. No wonder, you look longingly to
retirement.
In this sentence, the subject has changed from one (third person)
to you (second person). To correct the sentence either replace
one with you or vice versa:
You enter this world with no responsibilities.
Then comes school, then work, then marriage and
family. No wonder, you look longingly to
retirement.
One enters this world with no responsibilities.
Then comes school, then work, then marriage and
family. No wonder, one looks longingly to
retirement.