Pronouns 1: Personal Pronouns & Antecedents

Identify each personal pronoun in this sentence:

Have you ever heard of the Underground Railroad?

• Have

• you

• heard

• Underground Railroad

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CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.1.1D

Identify each personal pronoun in this sentence:

It played an important role in our history.

• It

• played

• important

• our

• history

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CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.1.1D

Identify each personal pronoun in this sentence:

What we call the Underground Railroad was actually a system that helped slaves escape from slavery.

• What

• we

• slaves

• escape

• slavery

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CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.1.1D

Identify each personal pronoun in this sentence:

Its secret way of moving slaves northward gave the Underground Railroad its name.

• Its

• way

• moving

• the

• name

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CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.1.1D

Identify each personal pronoun in this sentence:

The slaves traveled at night with their few possessions.

• Slaves

• traveled

• at

• their

• possessions

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CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.1.1D

Identify each personal pronoun in this sentence:

What does the word abolitionist mean to you?

• What

• does

• abolitionist

• mean

• you

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CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.1.1D

Identify each personal pronoun in this sentence:

An abolitionist spoke out against slavery before and during our Civil War.

• abolitionist

• spoke

• out

• our

• war

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CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.1.1D

Identify each personal pronoun in this sentence: Sojourner Truth was a well-known abolitionist in her day.

• Sojourner Truth

• was

• abolitionist

• her

• day

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CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.1.1D

Identify each personal pronoun in this sentence: She was a former slave and her stirring speeches convinced many people that slavery was evil.

• She

• former

• her

• speeches

• that

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CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.1.1D

Identify each personal pronoun in the following sentences: Frederick Douglass was another abolitionist. He was a conductor on the Underground Railroad who helped slaves by moving them northward.

• Frederick Douglass

• another

• He

• conductor

• them

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CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.1.1D