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Which pronouns should be used to maintain a consistent point of view?I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids—and I might even be said to possess a mind. _____ (am/is/are) invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see _____.—Ralph Ellison, Invisible Mansecond-person pronounsfirst-person pronounsthird-person pronouns

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Which pronouns should be used to maintain a consistent point of view?I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids—and I might even be said to possess a mind. _____ (am/is/are) invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see _____.—Ralph Ellison, Invisible Mansecond-person pronounsfirst-person pronounsthird-person pronouns

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The correct pronouns to maintain a consistent point of view in this passage would be first-person pronouns. The passage is written from the first-person perspective, as indicated by the use of "I am" and "my". Therefore, to maintain this perspective, you should use first-person pronouns like "I", "me", "my", "mine", "we", "us", "our", and "ours".

So, the completed passage would be: "I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me."

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