Answer:
Junior gets beat up at least once a month on the rez for having water on the brain, wearing glasses, seizing, lisping and stuttering
Bivalves, compressed bodies enclosed by a shell consisting of two hinged parts. Bivalves include clams, oysters, cockles, mussels, scallops, and numerous other families that live in saltwater, as well as a number of families that live in freshwater.
A pronoun shift is when you modify the pronoun in the same sentence, then the reader is not able to understand who is the subject of the sentence.
In the exemplified sentence the pronoun inserted incorrectly is <u>they</u>, shifting the initially singular subject "The student" (pronouns he or she) to a plural pronominal form.
When correcting, the writer must evaluate which is the desired pronoun, that fits his subject.:
<em>(Singular form) If the student feels ill, he/she should be sent to the nurse.
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<em>(Plural form) If the students feel ill, they should be sent to the nurse.</em>
So, the pronoun shift that should be circled is They
The answer is D.
There is no single topic sentence within this piece of writing. A topic sentence is used to summarize what is going to be, or what has been written about, and there is no such sentence within this piece.
