Pronouns and antecedents

What is an antecedent?

• A Person, Place, Thing, or Idea

• An Action Word

• A word that describes nouns

• The word the pronoun is replacing

What is the antecedent of the pronoun it?

Ivan left some music at the office. It was on a CD.

• Jinx

• music

• It

• CD

Tags

CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.3.1F

CCSS.RL.3.1

Xavier secretly admitted to his classmates that Mrs. Walker was his favorite teacher.

What is the antecedent for his?

• classmates
• Mrs. Walker
• teacher
• Xavier

Tags

CCSS.L.6.1A

CCSS.L.6.1C

CCSS.L.6.1D

CCSS.L.3.1A

What is the pronoun in the following sentences?
Randy jumped from the boat and swam to the island.  The water was cold, but he felt completely refreshed.

• Randy
• swam
• but
• he

Tags

CCSS.L.6.1A

In the sentences,
I left my house and locked the door, but needed to open it up again and find my phone.
What is the antecedent for the pronoun it?

• I
• house
• door
• phone

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.1

CCSS.L.9-10.4A

_______ and his father are going fishing.

• Our
• He
• His
• Their

Tags

CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.3.1F

Choose the word that is not a pronoun.

• is
• me
• he
• they

Tags

CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.6.1A

CCSS.L.6.1C

CCSS.L.6.1D

The teacher brought ______ cookies to celebrate.

• we

• I

• us

• it

Tags

CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.3.1F

What is an antecedent?

• the word in a sentence that has four syllables
• a noun that cannot be seen, tasted, smelled, touched, or heard
• a pronoun at the end of a sentence
• the noun that the pronoun replaces

Find the pronoun in the sentence: The boy went to his favorite class.

• the
• to
• his
• class

Tags

CCSS.L.6.1C

CCSS.L.6.1D

CCSS.L.6.1A

CCSS.L.3.1A