2) It was the next-to-last day of school, and Mr. Cosby’s 4th Period class was English III (Juniors). Of a class of 32 students, only 11 remained. At first they (1) was content just to chat but eventually they got (4) board. (5) I called her to see if she had a deck of Uno, but Mrs. Dial didn’t. Since it was close to the end of the year, Deloris (6) decided to organize a game of Uno on their cell phones. (3) Moving closer to the mounted television, Uno was played.
First, define the grammatical problem occurring with (2) and (5), correcting one of the two:
The grammatical problem occurring with (2) is subject-verb agreement. The correct verb form should be "were" instead of "was" to match the plural subject "they."
As for (5), the grammatical problem is the incorrect pronoun usage. Instead of using "her," it should be "him" or "them," depending on the gender or number of the person/people being referred to.
The grammatical problem occurring in sentence (2) is a subject-verb agreement error. The pronoun "they" is plural, but the verb "was" is singular. To correct the error, we should use the plural form of the verb, which is "were."
Corrected version of sentence (2): At first, they were content just to chat.
The grammatical problem occurring in sentence (5) is a pronoun-antecedent agreement error. The pronoun "her" does not have a clear antecedent in the sentence. To clarify the antecedent, we can replace "her" with a proper noun or a noun phrase.
Corrected version of sentence (5): I called Mrs. Dial to see if she had a deck of Uno.