Unspecified Referential Index

Question 1

Unspecified Referential Index Negative Example:

(A phrase that deletes who is doing the acting. Using a general subject that doesn’t refer to a specific person. Frequent words: a person, someone, people, they, one, we. Also, generalizations which apply to classes or groups of individuals: “Americans, Catholics, Jews, managers, workers, men, women, etc.”)

A person could get really fed up with you.”

Answer 1

Unspecified Referential Index Positive Challenge:

“Which person?”

Question 2

Unspecified Referential Index Negative Example:

(A phrase that deletes who is doing the acting. Using a general subject that doesn’t refer to a specific person. Frequent words: a person, someone, people, they, one, we. Also, generalizations which apply to classes or groups of individuals: “Americans, Catholics, Jews, managers, workers, men, women, etc.”)

“People don’t like you.”

Answer 2

Unspecified Referential Index Positive Challenge:

“Which people?”

Question 3

Unspecified Referential Index Negative Example:

(A phrase that deletes who is doing the acting. Using a general subject that doesn’t refer to a specific person. Frequent words: a person, someone, people, they, one, we. Also, generalizations which apply to classes or groups of individuals: “Americans, Catholics, Jews, managers, workers, men, women, etc.”)

“One isn’t going to learn what one doesn’t know, is one?”

Answer 3

Unspecified Referential Index Positive Challenge:

“Which one?”

Question 4

Unspecified Referential Index Negative Example:

(A phrase that deletes who is doing the acting. Using a general subject that doesn’t refer to a specific person. Frequent words: a person, someone, people, they, one, we. Also, generalizations which apply to classes or groups of individuals: “Americans, Catholics, Jews, managers, workers, men, women, etc.”)

“A man should at least open a woman’s door.”

Answer 4

Unspecified Referential Index Positive Challenge:

“Which man should open which woman’s door?”

Question 5

Unspecified Referential Index Negative Example:

(A phrase that deletes who is doing the acting. Using a general subject that doesn’t refer to a specific person. Frequent words: a person, someone, people, they, one, we. Also, generalizations which apply to classes or groups of individuals: “Americans, Catholics, Jews, managers, workers, men, women, etc.”)

“A body has to wonder what’s going on in that brain of yours!”

Answer 5

Unspecified Referential Index Positive Challenge:

“Whose body?”