Multiple choice

Directions: The question presents a sentence, all or part of which is underlined. Beneath the sentence you will find five ways of phrasing the underlined part. The first of these repeats the original; the other four are different. If you think the original is best, choose the first answer; otherwise choose one of the others.

Those of us who are over fifty years old should get their blood pressure checked regularly.

  1. get their blood pressure checked regularly.

  2. get our blood pressure checked regularly.

  3. gets yourself blood pressure checked regularly.

  4. got his blood pressure checked regularly.

  5. got her blood pressure checked regularly.

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

is grammatically the most correct option because the pronoun 'our' correctly refers to the antecedent (us). No other option is correctly referring to the antecedent.