Pronouns & Antecedents
This part of speech takes the place of a noun in a sentence.
What is a pronoun?
This shows the relationship between a noun or pronoun and other words in the sentence.
What is a preposition?
A, An, and The are the only ones
What is an article?
This is a word or phrase that expresses emotion.
What is an interjection?
This is your own thoughts or feelings about something.
What is an opinion?
This is what we call the noun that the pronoun replaces.
What is an antecedent?
This starts with the preposition and includes the object (words) of the preposition (Preposition + the Words that Follow)
What is a prepositional phrase?
Find the article: I bought a new car yesterday.
What is a?
Find the interjection: Wow! Those are awesome shoes.
What is Wow!?
Find the pronoun(s): I asked her if the headphones were hers, but she said they belonged to someone else.
What is I, her, hers, she, they, and someone?
What is his?
Find the preposition: The book is on the table.
What is on?
Find the article: Please pass me the salt.
Find the interjection: Hello, how are you?
What is Hello,?
Find the preposition(s) and prepositional phrase(s): The Knights played amazingly in the gym during the basketball game.
What is in and during? What is in the gym and during the basketball game?
Find the antecedent: Jack fixed the computer himself.
What is Jack?
Find the prepositional phrase: He is beneath the tree.
What is beneath the tree?
Find the article: She read an interesting article online.
What is an?
Find the interjection: Oh boy, I'm tired.
What is Oh boy,?
When do you use an vs. a in sentences?
Find the pronoun(s) and antecedent(s): Vanessa and Caroline took their cakes home.
What is their? What is Vanessa and Caroline?
Find the preposition and prepositional phrase: She is looking for her keys.
What is for and for her keys?
What are the indefinite and definite articles?
What is the indefinite articles are "a" and "an", and the definite article is "the"?
Find the interjection: We're not lost. We just need to go, um, this way.
What is, um,?
Find the interjection: After hours of rehearsing their harmonies and perfecting every note, the choir finally delivered a flawless performance, incredible!
What is, incredible!?