Agreement and Pronoun Types Review

Agreement and Pronoun Types Review

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Subject-Verb Agreement

• Subjects and verbs agree in number (singular subject = singular verb; plural subject = plural verb)

• Singular verbs end in -s; plural verbs do not.

• AND makes previously singular subjects plural

• OR/NOR keeps singular subjects singular

Multiple Choice

Is the verb singular or plural? WARN

• Singular

• Plural

Multiple Choice

Is the verb singular or plural? BURIES

• Singular

• Plural

Multiple Choice

Is the verb singular or plural? INTERFERES

• Singular

• Plural

Multiple Choice

Is this subject singular or plural? HARPER, BELLA, AND EMILIO

• Singular

• Plural

Multiple Choice

Is this subject singular or plural? HARPER, BELLA, OR EMILIO

• Singular

• Plural

Multiple Choice

Is this subject singular or plural? MANY OF MY FRIENDS

• Singular

• Plural

Multiple Choice

Is this subject singular or plural? EACH OF MY FRIENDS

• Singular

• Plural

Multiple Choice

Is this subject singular or plural? NEITHER THE OCEAN NOR THE SHORE

• Singular

• Plural

Multiple Choice

Is this subject singular or plural? MUCH OF THE STORY

• Singular

• Plural

Multiple Choice

Is this subject singular or plural? ANYONE

• Singular

• Plural

Multiple Choice

Is the subject singular or plural? THEY

• Singular

• Plural

Multiple Choice

Choose the correct verb for the subject. Both Sarah and Jane __________ books: all the books.

• wants

• want

• wanting

Multiple Choice

Choose the correct verb for the subject. In the ocean, either a crab or a rock _________ my toe.

• pinching

• pinch

• pinches

Multiple Choice

Choose the correct verb for the subject. Someone from my soccer team _______ all the pizza.

• eats

• eat

• eating

Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement

• Pronouns and Antecedents agree in gender and number

• AND makes singular antecedents plural

• OR/NOR keeps singular antecedents singular

Multiple Choice

Choose the correct pronoun for the underlined antecedent. Many of the animals had to tend to ________ land.

• Their

• his or hers

• its

Multiple Choice

Choose the correct pronoun for the underlined antecedent.

Either Snowball or Napoleon spread ________ influence.

• Their

• his

• its

Multiple Choice

Choose the correct pronoun for the underlined antecedent.

The windmill required that _________ plans be perfect.

• their

• his

• its

Multiple Choice

Choose the correct pronoun for the underlined antecedent.

The animals formed __________ into 2 factions.

• himself

• itself

• themselves

Multiple Choice

Choose the correct pronoun for the underlined antecedent.

Boxer and Benjamin played in __________ field.

• his

• their

• its

Multiple Choice

Choose the correct pronoun for the underlined antecedent.

When the animals had assembled in the farm, each of them cast _______ vote.

• his or her

• their

• our

Personal Pronouns

• 4 types

• Subjective (subjects & PNs): I, you, he, she, it, we, they

• Objective (DO, IO, OP): me, you, him, her, it, us, them

• Possessive (shows ownership): my, mine, your(s), his, her(s), its, our(s), their(s)

• Reflexive (ends in self or selves): myself, yourself, himself, herself, itself, ourselves, yourselves, themselves

Multiple Choice

What kind of personal pronoun is underlined?

By the time he had finished speaking, the dogs started growling.

• Subjective

• Objective

• Reflexive

• Possessive

Multiple Choice

What kind of personal pronoun is underlined?

Snowball ran away from the dogs to protect his tail.

• Subjective

• Objective

• Reflexive

• Possessive

Multiple Choice

What kind of personal pronoun is underlined?

The animals found themselves persuaded by Squealer.

• Subjective

• Objective

• Reflexive

• Possessive

Multiple Choice

What kind of personal pronoun is underlined?

The dogs wagged their tails to him.

• Subjective

• Objective

• Reflexive

• Possessive

Multiple Choice

What kind of personal pronoun is underlined?

You should reconsider if singing "Beasts of England" is useful.

• Subjective

• Objective

• Reflexive

• Possessive

Multiple Choice

What kind of personal pronoun is underlined?

But, I sang "Beasts of England" for you, Comrade Napoleon.

• Subjective

• Objective

• Reflexive

• Possessive

Multiple Choice

What kind of personal pronoun is underlined?

"Four legs good, two legs bad" is a great motto. What do you think of it?

• Subjective

• Objective

• Reflexive

• Possessive

Demonstrative, Interrogative, and Indefinite

• Demonstrative: this, that, these, those

• Interrogative: what, who, whom, whose, which

• Indefinite (undefined antecedent): one, each, any, none, every, either, neither, some, all, everyone, no one, any one

Multiple Choice

What kind of pronoun is THIS?

• Interrogative

• Demonstrative

• Indefinite

Multiple Choice

What kind of pronoun is ALL?

• Interrogative

• Demonstrative

• Indefinite

Multiple Choice

What kind of pronoun is WHAT?

• Interrogative

• Demonstrative

• Indefinite

Multiple Choice

What kind of pronoun is SOMETHING?

• Interrogative

• Demonstrative

• Indefinite

Multiple Choice

What kind of pronoun is THOSE?

• Interrogative

• Demonstrative

• Indefinite

Multiple Choice

What kind of pronoun is NONE?

• Interrogative

• Demonstrative

• Indefinite

Multiple Choice

What kind of pronoun is WHICH?

• Interrogative

• Demonstrative

• Indefinite