Definitions
A word that replaces a noun or is equal to the noun is called a ___.
What is pronoun?
When Sir Frances was sixty-five, he sailed along around the world.
What is correct?
Something left ___ footprints in the mud.
What is its?
The rose bushes have lost (its, their) petals.
What is their?
Yuri and Lisa talked to their friends about their awards from the science fair.
What are Yuri and Lisa?
This type of pronoun shows ownership and never uses an apostrophe.
What are possessive pronouns?
When an employee does not agree with our boss's decision, the employee should not support that decision.
What is incorrect?
Not a single bystander admitted that the blazing forest fire was ___ fault.
What is his/hers OR their?
Before students take a test, (he, they) should prepare adequately.
What is they?
The coach made everyone on the soccer team run five laps around the track, until he got tired of hearing them complain.
What is the coach?
Pronouns like myself, yourself, themselves, itself, ourselves, yourselves, emphasize nouns or pronouns, and can be removed from a sentence without changing its meaning.
What are intensive pronouns?
Due to the fact that my computer is older than the other computers, I didn't expect them to work very quickly.
What is incorrect?
Correct: Due to the fact that my computer is older than the other computers, I didn't expect it to work very quickly.
When it started to rain, all the students put on ___ raincoats.
What is his/hers OR their?
*we do not know the gender of the students i.e. it could be an all-girls/all-boys school, so "their" is safest.
Joe didn't think (he, they) should have to retake the test.
What is he?
The Advanced 3.2 class should proofread their writing compositions before they turn it in to Ms. Cessali.
What is the Advanced 3.2 class?
Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement means a singular pronoun refers to a ____ antecedent or a plural pronoun refers to a ___ antecedent.
What is singular, plural?
Before students take a test, they should prepare adequately.
What is correct?
Among all of the umbrellas in the umbrella holder, I can always recognize _____, because it has unicorns and stars.
What is mine?
Because the members of the chemistry class did poorly on the exam, (it, they) had to take a make-up exam.
What is they?
The weather is great today; let's make the most of it by going to the beach.
What is the weather?
The word that a pronoun refers to or replaces is called the ___. Example: Katelyn loves her new kitten. Her is the pronoun referring to Katelyn. What is Katelyn called?
What is antecedent?
Boris, the kitten, received no honors, and its trip ended when a wave swept them overboard.
What is incorrect?
That trophy should have been ______ since we performed the best karaoke version of Michael Jackson's "Beat It".
What is ours?
(A person, People) should always try to be helpful to his or her classmates.
What is a person?
Since he is known as a Shogi master, Yujiro was offered a seat in the competition.
What is Yujiro?