A pronoun question with a blank before a noun tests whether the word and noun agree. Sort the choices into one thing or more than one. Then check the noun after the blank: a word pointing out a noun must match whether that noun is singular or plural. Read the word and noun together, since some pronouns replace a noun rather than come before it. Nearby nouns can distract you from the noun the word belongs with.
Hints
- Hint 1
Look at the noun directly after the blank in the second sentence.
- Hint 2
Decide whether that noun names one thing or more than one. Then read the word and noun together to check that they agree.
Step-by-step
Match the word to the noun after it
Step 1Sort by number
Sort the choices into one thing or more than one. This, That, and It are singular, so they point to one thing. The blank in ______ photographs capture comes directly before a noun, so we also need a word that can go before that noun.
- Step 2
Find the noun that controls the match
Which noun controls the word in the blank? The phrase A set of photographs in the first sentence names one group, but the second sentence uses photographs, a plural noun. The blank is attached to that noun, not to the whole group mentioned earlier. A word pointing out a noun must match whether that noun is singular or plural, so this position needs a plural word.
- Step 3
Use the plural form
These points to more than one thing and can come before a noun, so it fits directly before photographs. Read the result as These photographs: the word points to the pictures already described as being on display. Choice B.