Pronouns

Pronouns

What is a Pronoun?

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Why It Matters
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Pronoun
A pronoun is a word that
is used in place of a
noun or another
pronoun.

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A pronoun can refer to a person, place, thing,

or idea.

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The word that a pronoun

refers to is called its
antecedent.

Ronal visited Death Valley, and he

was impressed.

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Pronouns such as we, I, he, them
and it are called personal
pronouns.

Personal pronouns have a

variety of forms to indicate
different persons,
numbers, and cases.

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There are first-person,

second-person, and
third-person personal
pronouns, each having
both singular and
plural forms.

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Each personal pronoun

forms three cases:
subject, object, and
possessive.

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Choose the pronoun form depending on the

pronouns function in the sentence.

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Pronouns help you talk about people

concisely when youre telling a story.

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PRACTI
CE

Write the personal pronoun

in the sentence below.
1. Death Valley is famous
for its strange moving
boulders.

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PRACTI
CE

Write the personal pronoun

in the sentence below.
2. The rocks slide and
leave long tracks
behind them.

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PRACTI
CE

Write the personal pronoun

in the sentence below.

3. Do you know why this happens?

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Pronoun Agreement
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Antecedent
The antecedent is the
noun or pronoun that a
pronoun replaces or
refers to.

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Use a singular pronoun to refer to a

singular antecedent.
REFERS

TO

One story has its setting in Egypt.

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Use a plural pronoun to refer to a

plural antecedent.
TO
REFERS

The characters have their motives for

murder.

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The pronoun must agree in person

with the antecedent.
THIRD PERSON

Rosi likes his mysteries to

have surprise endings.

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The gender of the pronoun must be the

same as the gender of its antecedent.

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Personal pronouns have three gender forms:

masculine he, his, him

feminine she, her, hers

neuter it, its

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FEMININE

Agnez Mo sets many of her stories

in England.
MASCULINE

The hero has to use all his wits to

solve the crime.

Why It Matters

In your writing, you will

sometimes refer to several
people or groups of people.
Correct pronoun-antecedent
agreement will help your
readers keep track of who is
who in your writing.

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PRACTI
CE

Write the pronouns and their

antecedents in this sentence.

4.Agatha loved real-life mysteries

of the past. She helped to
investigate them in the Middle
East

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PRACTI
CE

Write the pronouns and their

antecedents in this sentence.

5.Agatha and her husband went on

many archaeological trips and
found them exciting.

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PRACTI
CE

Write the pronouns and their

antecedents in this sentence.
6.A mystery writer may use
exotic places and backgrounds
for his or her stories.