Understand and Edit for Grammar - MAP 8th Grade Language Usage

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Select the correct pronoun to fill in the blank for the following sentence.

The family was excited to go on vacation,                      arrived at the airport hours before the plane's departure time.

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This sentence is talking about a family. A family is more than one person. Because we are talking about more than one person the pronoun should be "they".

If we were talking about just one person, or one person in a family, we would use "he" or "she".

You would not refer to a family as "it". If we were talking directly to the family, we could use the pronoun "they", but this sentence is not talking to the family, it's talking about the family.

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