The following sentences contain illogical shifts in person. Choose the answer that corrects the illogical shifts in person, uses the pronouns consistently, and changes the verb if necessary to agree with the new subject.
For help with this exercise, see section 22b of Foundations First, Fifth Edition.
My friend Sara works at a local historic house where you can take tours.
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Sara tells you terrible stories about her boss.
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The boss yells whenever you alter a single word of the speech that the visitors hear.
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Sara has won prizes at some of the public-speaking contests you can enter at school.
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She tries occasionally to give the visitors information about the house that you wouldn’t ordinarily hear.
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However, the boss is happy only when you recite the memorized speech word for word.
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Recently, Sara was giving a tour to a group, and you could see that the mayor was one of the visitors.
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She told the group some things that you learn by working at the house—things that are not part of the speech.
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Her boss overheard, and you thought he was going to explode.
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Afterward, however, the mayor told Sara that you can apply to work as a summer assistant in the mayor’s office and that she would be sure to remember Sara’s name.
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