ACTIVITY SHEET R2B

Pronoun and Referent Hunt

DIRECTIONS: Underline  the  pronouns  in  the  following  passage.  Draw  arrows  to the  
referents.  (The  number  in  parentheses  following  each  paragraph  indicates  the number  of  
pronouns  in  the  paragraph.)

AGREEMENT  REACHED  IN  THE  HALE  CASE

University  City  Press
Wednesday,  April  1

1► University City. The case of former a result of the statement she made
university student Andrew Hale came to to university officials, the police
a close yesterday as an agreement was were called in and steps were taken
reached by local authorities, university which resulted in yesterday's
officials, and attorneys for Mr. Hale. agreement. (9)
Under this agreement, Mr. Hale will not 4► Under the agreement, Hale will
serve any time in prison, but he faces a be expelled immediately as a
number penalties, including expulsion university student, will serve eight
from the university, house arrest, months under house arrest, and will
required universtiy service, and a huge pay a fine of $100,000 to the
fine for the grade selling scheme he university. During his term of house
hatched, which will be imposed arrest, he must work for the
immediately. (3) university's security division, with
2► Mr. Hale, a computer whiz, his entire salary going toward the
succeeded in hacking his way into fine. He will have one responsibility
the university's computerized grade in the security division. That will be
system in his freshman year, purely to establish security procedures to
as a joke. He made a few changes stay ahead of students and keep
to grades of students he did not them from hacking into the
know to see if the system could computer system to change grades.
catch them, and it failed. His (5)
sophomore year found him 5► University officials put out the
changing his own grades but not following statement after the
those of other students. (9) agreement was struck: “Mr. Hale
3► The following year Hale used has amazing talent, but he
his expertise to go into business for unfortunately decided to use this
himself. His business plan was a talent for evil instead of good. We
successful one, at least in the hope to benefit from it over the next
beginning. It involved changing few months while at the same time
grades for other students for a fee. teaching him a lesson about the
University officials found out about misuse of his talent.” (5)
the scheme when Hale's former
girlfriend informed them about it. As

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