10 points english which of the following scetences contains a possessive pronoun?
a. startled by its own reflection, the cat jumped in the air
b. after sarah mowed the grass, she left for the game.
c. has anyone seen the movie the miracle worker
d. kevin is the friend who me build the treehouse

A. Startled by its own reflection, the cat jumped in the air.

Explanation:

Identifying key parts of sentences and sentence structure is crucial throughout English.

You should remember that a pronoun is simply something that can really replace a noun. It's quite often these are confused with nouns, and that's rightfully so because they are quite similar.

POSSESSIVE pronouns, on the other hand, take these noun-alikes and add possession to it. They are NOT to be confused with the subject of the sentece, however, they show some form of possession TO that subject.

A. Startled by its own reflection, the cat jumped into the air.

Notice how "its" is defining something belonging to the cat, not the cat itself.

B. After Sarah mowed the grass, she left for the game.

There is no possessive pronoun here. "She" is but a mere pronoun, the subject. You cannot confuse this for showing possession because one cannot simply possess themselves, that's just. . .wrong. And odd. And will never be spoken of again :). Starting AFTER I finish with the other two!! What "she" is, is actually a SUBJECT pronoun! Who would've guessed??

C. Has anyone seen the movie The Miracle Worker?

. . . I don't even see a pronoun in this sentence, however, the hypothetical "subjects" in this case is referred to via "anyone," which might trick some into thinking it's a pronoun, so I suppose it's necessary to point out that neither is anyone showing any form of posession to anything, but anyone is far too vaugue of a term.

D. Kevin is the friend who helped me build the treehouse.

There is ALSO not a possessive pronoun present here, however, there IS an object pronoun, "me." Me isn't defining the subject because the subject is Kevin, thus making "me" define a secondary "object" (so to speak) within the sentence, thus making it an OBJECT pronoun. There is nothing in this sentence showing possession though!!

A is your only shot.

faulty parallelism is a grammar construction where there is no balance in the parts of a sentence they have a similar meaning but the grammar structure is not equivalent.

the correct version of this faulty parallelism in the sentence is:

jefferson wrote the declaration of independence, and he was the nation's third president.

the problem with the first version is that the sentence:

"jefferson was both the writer of the declaration of independence"

presents jefferson as both a subject and an agent for the verb "write" because if he was "the writer" then the declaration of independence was written by him, besides that fact, the sentence presents a dependent clause.

while the second sentence:

he was the nation's third president.

presents a basic subject+verb+object structure

so, to give a proper balance to the structure, or better said, to give a parallel structure, we must write a basic s+v+o structure in both sentences:

jefferson wrote the declaration of independence, and he was the nation third president.

honestly, is this even a but since you asked, he's probably at the store trying to get you food.