Task 11. Fill each blank with one suitable detaching, universal or reciprocal pronoun.

Raising one child at a time is hard enough; parents of twins have an even more difficult job. It is important that the children don't become so bonded that one becomes merely a missing part of ________ (1). Parents have to help their children grow up together, but realising that they are individuals first and twins second. The sibling rivalry may be avoided by encouraging them to develop different interests from ________ (2) to help to preserve their identities. But the special intimacy that twins share can lead to problems. As they grow older they may find it hard to develop close relationships with ________ (3) because they think no person will ever know them as well as their twin. They think like ________ (4) and do the same things, marry similar partners and live in virtually identical houses. In one study, a twin declared that losing ________ (5) would be like losing a part of her own body. In ________ (6), a pair separated at birth and brought up in different towns, unaware of ________ (7) existence, moved into houses in Florida with their families, only to discover that the person next door was none ________ (8) than their twin.

The intimacy between twins can sometimes be destructive. Psychologists are trying to find out where closeness ends and pathology begins. From the time June and Jennifer Gibbons could speak, they seldom did - except for one rare simple sentences to adults and some words to ________ (9) children. Eventually they spoke only with ________ (10) and around their home town in Wales they became known as the Silent Twins, developing a private language that _______ (11) people could not understand. Jennifer was so jealous of June, whom she thought prettier and more loved by their parents, that she forced her into a childhood vow of silence. One acquaintance said that Jennifer seemed to have 'possessed' her sister: with eye signals, she told June when to talk, how to move, what to do. _______ (12) one monitored _______ (13) so that they could act in perfect unison. They even fell off horses at the same time. Once Jennifer intoned to her _______ (14) sister, 'You are Jennifer. You are me.' An agonised June screamed back, 'I am June! I am June!'

TASK 12. Spot and correct mistakes in the use of pronouns. Some of the sentences are correct.

1. I definitely saw me in the mirror but I couldn’t recognise that unfamiliar person.

2. The students in our class had two choices: basketball or soccer. Half of the students played basketball. Others played soccer.

3. People have two thumbs. One is on the right hand. Another is on the left hand.

4. The telephone and the automobile are twentieth-century inventions. The others are the computer, television, and the airplane. Can you name another twentieth-century inventions?

5. Any of the people there last night knew who I was.

6. Any information you have would be really helpful.

7. Nobody of us likes him. He is so rude. Nobody want to talk to him.

8. They don’t ever want to tell me nothing.

9. My marks have always been higher than his ones.

10. I’m sure history repeats herself.

11. We ourselfs have to build our own strength.

12. Everybody recognize the importance of education.

13. Did you take this picture or was it someone else photograph?

14. He wasn’t anyone I admired as a writer.

15. None of the two paintings appeals to me.

16. Somebody who wants to can come in and buy a car from me.

17. I wouldn’t forget anything that I finished reading only half an hour ago.

TASK 13. Cross out all the unnecessary indefinite pronouns.

One of the marvellous things on my first trip to Europe was the discovery that the world could be so full of any variety, that there were so many different ways of doing some essentially identical things, something like eating and drinking and buying cinema tickets. It fascinated me that any Europeans could be at once alike - that they could be so bookish and cerebral, and some drive small cars, and live in little houses in ancient towns, and some love soccer, and have chilly hotel rooms and warm inviting places to eat and drink - and yet be so endlessly, unpredictably different from each other as well.

I loved the idea that you could never be sure of anything in Europe. This is why I have never learned any language other than English. I don't want to know what other people are talking about. I can't think of anything that excites a greater sense of any childhood wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything. Suddenly you are some five years old again. You can't read anything, you have only the most rudimentary sense of how any things work, you can't even reliably cross a street without endangering your life. Your whole existence becomes a series of some interesting guesses.