Personal Pronouns
Antecedent
Pronoun
Pronoun & Antecedent
Singular & Plural Pronouns
100
What is the personal pronoun: The explorers sailed their ship across the Pacific.
What is their?
100
Identify the Antecedent:  Two deer led their young to the river.
What is deer?
100
What is the pronoun:  Will the treasurer give her report?
What is her?
100
Identify the pronoun and then its antecedent:  The jaguar struck the rock and injured its front paw.
Pronoun: its

Antecedent: jaguar

100
Singular or Plural Pronoun? We
What is plural?
200
Identify the personal pronoun:  Bill left his homework on the bus.
What is his?
200
Identify the Antecedent:  The champion skater always performed on his newest skates.
What is champion skater?
200
What is the pronoun:  The rattlesnake kills its victims with venom.
What is its?
200

Identify the pronoun and then its antecedent: The violinist said he practices seven days a week.

Pronoun: he

Antecedent : violinist

200
Singular or Plural Pronoun? Them
What is Plural?
300
Identify the personal pronoun:  The bicycle is yours, Martha.
What is yours?
300
Identify the Antecedent:  Bill left his homework on the bus.
What is Bill?
300
What is the pronoun? Baking cookies for the party is not a good idea. It takes too much time.
What is It?
300
Identify the pronoun and then its antecedent:  A herd of bighorn sheep appeared, but they were frightened away by the airplane.

Pronoun: they

Antecedent: sheep

300
What is the pronoun, and is it singular or plural? Albert Einstein devoted his life to science.
What is his and singular?
400
Identify the personal pronoun:  When the astronaut landed his spaceship, the sun had already set.
What is his?
400
Identify the Antecedent:  The bicycle is yours, Martha.
What is Martha?
400
Identify the pronoun:  If they arrive in time, the boys will do the work.
What is they?
400
Identify the pronoun and then its antecedent:  As the steamboat rounded the bend, black smoke poured from its smokestack.
Pronoun: its

Antecedent: steamboat

400
What is the pronoun, and is it singular or plural? The Mississippi empties its waters into the Gulf of Mexico.
What is its and singular?
500
Identify the personal pronoun:  A large sheepdog buries its bones behind the barn.
What is its?
500
Identify the antecedent:  Where are you going, Bob?
What is Bob?
500
Identify the pronoun:  Martha explained how she won the contest.
What is she?
500
Identify the pronoun and then its antecedent:  After some discussion the explorers chose their route through the mountains.
Pronoun: their

Antecedent: explorers

500
What is the pronoun, and is it singular or plural? The actors practiced their parts at rehearsal.
What is their and plural?
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