Pronouns What is a Pronoun What is pronoun
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Pronouns
What is a Pronoun? • What is pronoun? • Here’s The Idea • Why it Matters • Practice and Apply
Pronoun. A pronoun is a word that is used in place of a noun or another pronoun.
• A pronoun can refer to a person, place, things, or idea.
The word that a pronoun refers to is called its antecedent. • Ramon visited Death Valley, and he was impressed. • He refers to Ramon.
• 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.
There are first-person, secondperson, and third-personal pronouns, each having both singular and plural forms.
Singular I went out. • First person • You left too. • Second person • He came by bus. • Third person Plural We left early. First person You are leaving. second person They came by car. Third person
Each personal pronoun forms three cases: subject, object, and possessive
Choose the pronoun form depending on the pronoun’s function in the sentence. • He read about Death Valley • Subject is He. Julie asked him about the rocks. • Object is him. Ramon bought his book. • Possessive is his.
Pronouns help you talk about people concisely when you’re telling a story.
• Practice and Apply • Write the personal pronoun in the sentence below. 1. Death Valley is famous for its strange moving boulders.
Practice and Apply. Write the personal pronoun in the sentence below. 2. The rocks slide and leave long tracks behind them.
• Practice and Apply. Write the personal pronoun in the sentence below. 3. Do you know why this happens?
• Prounoun Agreement Here’s the Idea Why It Matters Practice and Apply
• Antecedent. The antecedent is the noun or pronoun that a pronoun replaces or refers to.
Use a singular pronoun to refer to a singular antecedent. One story has its setting in Egypt. • Its refers to story.
Use a plural pronoun to refer to a plural antecedent. • The characters have their motives for murder. • Their refers to characters.
The pronoun must agree in person with the antecedent. Louis likes his mysteries to have surprise endings. • Louis third person his.
The gender of the pronoun must be the same as the gender of its antecedent.
Personal pronouns have three gender forms: • masculine he, his, him • feminine she, hers • neuter it, its
Agatha Christie sets many of her stories in England. • Agatha Chistie feminine her. • The hero has to use all his wits to solve the crime. • Hero masculine his.
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.
Practice and Apply • Write the pronouns and their antecedents in these sentences. 4. Agatha Christie loved real-life mysteries of the past. She helped to investigate them in the Middle East.
• Practice and Apply Write the pronouns and their antecedents in this sentence. 5. Agatha Christie and her husband went on many archaeological trips and found them exciting.
• Practice and Apply Write the pronouns and their antecedents in this sentence. 6. A mystery writer may use exotic places and backgrounds for his or her stories.
• Practice and Apply • Write the pronouns and their antecedents in this sentence. 7. Christie started Murder in Mesopotamia in the desert, but she finished it in England.
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