Question

1. which word best completes the sentence? the ones going to the football game are ____ juniors. we us

Explanation:

To determine the correct word, we analyze the sentence structure. The blank is a possessive modifier for "juniors", so we need a possessive pronoun or a pronoun in the objective case that functions as a possessive adjective. "We" is a subjective pronoun (used as the subject of a sentence), while "us" is the objective form, but here we need a possessive - like usage. Wait, actually, the correct form here should be "us" as in "the ones... are us juniors" (where "us" is used to refer to the group of juniors that includes the speaker and others). Wait, no, let's correct that. The sentence is "The ones going to the football game are __ juniors." The correct pronoun here should be "us" because "we" is a subject pronoun (e.g., "We are going to the game"), but in this sentence, the structure is "are __ juniors", so we need the objective case "us" to function as a part of the noun phrase "us juniors" (where "us" is used to identify the group of juniors). "We" would be incorrect here because it can't be used in this position (e.g., "The ones... are we juniors" is grammatically incorrect as "we" is a subject pronoun and can't be used as a modifier in this way). So the correct word is "us".

Answer:

us (the option with "us")