Activity: Each of the following passages contains reference words that are in bold. After each passage, write what the bolded reference words refer to.

1. Mosquito, filled up with blood, manages to fly off carrying twice its own weight. To do this, it beats its wings more than 300 times a second.
To do this: fly off carrying twice its own weight

2. Smoking can be dangerous to your health. It is also expensive.
It:

3. Why would anyone want to buy a big, expensive, gas-guzzling car these days? This is something I can't understand.
This:

4. We expected the teacher to be angry but such was not the case.
Such:

5. While my wife's car is in the garage, she's using mine.
Mine:

6. Carolyn asked the teacher to contribute to the Girls' Scout and she was glad to do so.
So: