The Communicative Grammar of English Workbook - Edward Woods, Rudy Coppieters 2002

9.3. Cross-reference to noun phrases and substitutes for a noun phrase
Unit nine. Linking

Sections 375-382; 510; 529; 597-601; 619-622; 675-680

The personal pronouns he, she, it, they, etc. cross-refer to noun phrases, and agree with them in number and/or gender.

Occasionally, 1st and 2nd pronouns substitute for coordinate noun phrases.

Sometimes a plural pronoun cross-refers to quantifier pronouns like everybody, somebody, no one, and anyone.

Other pronouns such as one, some, each, none can act as substitutes for a noun phrase.

The pronouns that and those can act as substitutes with definite meaning.

Task one **

Replace the phrases underlined with appropriate pronouns.

1. I used to have high blood pressure. The high blood pressure somehow affected my eyes.

2. Thubron’s journey takes Thubron through a spectacular area of desert and mountains.

3. The book will deserve, through the beauty of the book’s prose, to stand alongside the best of travel writing.

4. Thubron is an extraordinary traveller, but Thubron wears Thubron’s knowledge as casually as Thubron’s rucksack.

5. Nobody is quite as you remember the person.

6. In the Tajiks’ villages of clay and brushwood, the Tajiks walk about in bright colours.

7. People began to laugh. Jacobi turned to glare at the people who began to laugh.

8. Pat and I always went there. It was one of Pat’s and my favourite spots.

9. Jacobi found he was bored with the piano and switched over to the violin. The only problem with switching from the piano to the violin was that he had to carry the violin home in a canvas case.

10. My two companions and I were summoned back to the office although my two companions and I still had unfinished business in the town.

Task two **

Complete the sentences with an appropriate pronoun.

1. It was obvious that the two students had cheated though neither of ... would admit it.

2. This early sonata is among his best ... he wrote later were too formulaic.

3. The daffodils this year have done better than ... last year.

4. They short-listed six of the applicants, but ... of them interviewed well.

5. It’s every man for ...

6. I’ve read all Shakespeare’s plays. Romeo and Juliet is the ... I know best.

7. He’s won many prizes, including several of the most important ...

8. She takes very good photographs ... have won the top international prizes.

9. He has a house in London, ... in Geneva and ... in the Caribbean.

10. There are too many books here ... of them belong to you. Take ... back, please.

11. The problem of including sensitive questions in a census is always a delicate ...

12. It was only in 1829 that provision was made for a regular police force in the metropolitan London area. ... was followed by further legislation establishing 43 county and borough forces.

13. Would you like a cup of tea? No thanks. I had ... just half-an-hour ago.

14. I preferred the play they did last year to the ... this year.

15. The herdsmen had all collapsed on the ground, ... here, ... there.