Personal Pronouns
What is the personal pronoun: The explorers sailed their ship across the Pacific.
What is their?
Identify the antecedent: Two deer led their young to the river.
What is deer?
What is the pronoun: Will the treasurer give her report?
What is her?
Underline the pronoun and circle the antecedent: The jaguar struck the rock and injured its front paw.
What is: circle- jaguar; underline-its
Singular or Plural Pronoun? We
What is plural
Identify the personal pronoun: Bill left his homework on the bus.
What is his?
Identify the Antecedent: The champion skater always performed on his newest skates.
What is champion skater?
What is the pronoun: The rattlesnake kills its victims with venom.
What is its?
Underline the pronoun and circle the antecdent: The violinist said he practices seven days a week.
What is: circle-violinist; underline-he
Identify the personal prounoun: The bicycle is yours, Martha.
What is yours?
Identify the Antecedent: Bill left his homework on the bus.
What is Bill?
What is the pronoun? Baking cookies for the party is not a good idea. It takes too much time.
What is It?
Underline the pronoun and circle the antecedent: A herd of bighorn sheep appeared, but they were frightened away by the airplane.
What is: circle- sheep; underline-they
What is the pronoun, and is it singular or plural? Albert Einstein devoted his life to science.
What is: his; singular
Identify the personal pronoun: When the astronaut landed his spaceship, the sun had already set.
What is his?
Identify the Antecedent: The bicycle is yours, Martha.
What is Martha?
Identify the pronoun: If they arrive in time, the boys will do the work.
What is they?
Underline the pronoun and circle the antecedent: As the steamboat rounded the bend, black smoke poured from its smokestack.
What is: circle- steamboat, underline- its
What is the pronoun, and is it singular or plural? The Mississippi empties its waters into the Gulf of Mexico.
What is: its; singular
Identify the personal pronoun: A large sheepdog buries its bones behind the barn.
What is its?
Identify the antecedent: Where are you going, Bob?
What is Bob?
Identify the pronoun: Martha explained how she won the contest.
What is she?
Underline the pronoun and circle the antecedent After some discussion the explorers chose their route through the mountains.
What is: circle- explorers; underline-their
What is the pronoun, and is it singular or plural? The actors practiced their parts at rehearsal.
What is: their; plural?