Terms to Know
This is a word that can replace a noun in a sentence.
What is a pronoun?
This is a person, place or thing.
What is a noun?
Identify the pronoun and whether it is personal, possessive or indefinite:
The concert was incredible, but it was too short.
What is it- a personal pronoun?
What types of pronouns are:
I, we, you, he, she, it, they
What are subject pronouns?
Both Rose and Travis worked hard on (his, their) presentation.
What is their?
This is a type of pronoun that describes a person or thing?
What is a personal pronoun?
This is a type of noun that is always capital.
What is a proper noun?
Identify the pronoun and whether it is personal, possessive or indefinite:
Each family had reserved seats at the orchestra.
What is each-an indefinite pronoun?
What types of pronouns are:
me, us, you, him, her, it them
What are object pronouns?
Neither Rose nor Travis worked hard on (their, his or her) presentation.
What is his or her?
This is a nonspecific person, place, thing or idea?
What is a common noun?
Identify the proper nouns in this sentence:
Orville and Wilbur Wright made history at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
What are Orville, Wilbur Wright, Kitty Hawk, North Carolina?
Identify the pronouns and whether they are personal, possessive or indefinite:
Craig and his friends were bored so they started a band.
What is his-a possessive pronoun and they- a personal pronoun?
The professor explained the scientific method to (us, we).
What is us?
Are the following indefinite pronouns singular or plural?
anybody, anyone, everybody, everyone, one, each
What is singular?
This is a pronoun is used to express an unspecified person, thing or amount in a sentence.
What is an indefinite pronoun?
Identify the common nouns in this sentence:
The building is amazingly beautiful.
What are building and beautiful?
Identify the pronouns and whether they are personal, possessive or indefinite:
His father could not come to the show, which was a disappointment, but he understood.
What is his-possessive, what is he-personal?
Jim and (him, he) are interested in our experiment’s results.
What is he?
Either Derrick or Kevin volunteers (his, their) time to plan a yearly block party.
What is his?
This is the word the pronoun replaces.
What is an antecedent?
Identify the common and proper nouns in this sentence:
Amelia Earhart's fate remains a puzzle to historians.
What are common nouns fate, puzzle and historians. What is proper noun Amelia Earhart?
Identify the pronouns and whether they is personal, possessive or indefinite:
Anybody listening to her stories should remember, she lies a lot.
What is 'the subject of a sentence' or 'a predicate nominative'?
What the following indefinite pronouns singular or plural?
all, any, most, some
What is -they can be either?!?!