Pronoun Intelligence
This category of pronouns can replace nouns performing the action in a sentence, and includes words like I and they.
What are subject pronouns?
This term describes the noun a pronoun points back to.
What is an antecedent?
These pronouns do not contain apostrophes but still show ownership.
What are possessive pronouns?
This pronoun category includes words like everyone and someone.
What are singular indefinite pronouns?
This mistake occurs when writers choose me after a linking verb.
What is incorrect pronoun case usage?
This pronoun form may replace nouns receiving the action, and can be found after action verbs like ask and help.
What are object pronouns?
This rule requires pronouns to reflect whether their antecedents are singular or plural.
What is number agreement?
These possessive pronouns appear without nouns after them: ours, his, theirs.
What are stand-alone possessive pronouns?
These indefinite pronouns consistently take plural verbs: both, several, and few.
What are plural indefinite pronouns?
This grammatical habit leads students to say, “Me and Greg walked home,” even though formal English rejects it.
What is using object pronouns in compound subjects?
If a sentence reads, “Sarah and ___ prepared dinner,” grammar rules require this type of pronoun to complete the blank.
What is a subject pronoun?
This rule explains why the pronoun their cannot replace the name Jennifer in formal writing.
What is gender and number agreement?
The pronoun its belongs to this possessive category, and must never be confused with the similar contraction.
What is a singular possessive pronoun?
This rule explains why “Everyone ___ excited” must contain the verb is, not are.
What is that singular indefinite pronouns require singular verbs?
This phenomenon explains why students incorrectly write, “Mom gave Jamal and I cookies.”
What is using a subject pronoun in a compound object?
In the sentence, “Mr. Cho invited Kamala and ___,” grammar rules demand this kind of pronoun, even if it sounds wrong to informal speakers.
What is an object pronoun?
If a sentence contains students followed later by him, a writer has broken this major pronoun requirement.
What is agreement between pronoun and antecedent?
The reason my can’t replace hers in the sentence “The trophy is hers” comes from this grammatical fact.
What is that stand-alone forms cannot be replaced by forms placed before nouns?
This type of indefinite pronoun can act as singular or plural depending on what follows it.
What are pronouns like all, most, some, and none?
This rule supports using he instead of him in the sentence “It was ___ who spoke first.”
What is formal pronoun case after linking verbs?
Students commonly break this grammar rule when they match a linking verb with an object pronoun instead of the required form.
What is the rule that a subject pronoun must follow a linking verb?
This specific grammar principle explains why the pronoun they may not correctly replace the Renaissance in a formal sentence.
What is that a singular antecedent requires a singular pronoun?
This concept explains why the pronoun our works in “our book,” but ours does not.
What is that some possessive pronouns only function before nouns?
This grammatical reason explains why “Some of the cake ___ gone” and “Some of the students ___ late” require different verb numbers.
What is that number depends on whether the object of the preposition is singular or plural?
The sentence “The choir sang; it was amazing” demonstrates pronoun function because of this concept linking the pronoun to a specific group noun.
What is pronoun-antecedent clarity?