Click to read the passage from The Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka. Then answer the question.
How does Gregor's appearance affect his mother?
A. Frightened, she faints.
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B. Excited, she says she loves him.
C. Frustrated, she yells at him.
D. Mournful, she begins to cry.

b                                                

Explanation:

When a pronoun does not agree in number or person with an antecedent that appears earlier in the sentence, a pronoun shift error ocurrs. Take A for example:

A) I always tell people that I don't like talking, that I enjoy silence.  *But he keeps talking to me even when I don't want to.

In this example, the pronoun does not agree in number and in in person with its antecedent. The NP antecedent is in the 1st person plural form (people) and the pronoun is in the 3rd person singular.