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1		Activity 1 Pick a person you'd like to know more about, and find a brief biography of them on the internet. Try starting at one of the following search engines: Yahoo! Lycos Google Once you've read the bio, rewrite the first two or three paragraphs, leaving out all the pronouns and replacing them with the person they refer to. For example, "Jackie Robinson hit his first home run that game" would be rewritten as: "Jackie Robinson hit Jackie Robinson's first home run that game." What did this exercise show you about pronouns?



2		Activity 2 Directions: For additional help with pronouns, visit The Purdue University Online Writing Lab and take notes during your visit there.

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