Vague Pronouns & Pronoun Shifts

What is a pronoun?

• A person, place, thing, or idea

• A word or that is used to take the place of one or more nouns.

• An action word.

• A word that describes a verb

Tags

CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.6.1A

CCSS.L.6.1C

CCSS.L.6.1D

What is an antecedent?

• A Person, Place, Thing, or Idea

• An Action Word

• A word that describes nouns

• The word(s) the pronoun is referring

Tags

CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.6.1A

CCSS.L.6.1C

CCSS.L.6.1D

The boy and the girl were playing in the mud, causing both to stain their shirts.

What is the antecedent for their?

• Boy, girl

• playing, causing

• mud, stain

• shirts

Tags

CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.6.1A

CCSS.L.6.1C

CCSS.L.6.1D

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.3.1A

CCSS.L.6.1A

CCSS.L.6.1C

CCSS.L.6.1D

What is the correct antecedent for it in the sentence? Because global warming acts to "put Earth in a greenhouse," it is also called the greenhouse effect.

• global warming

• greenhouse

• effect

• global

Tags

CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.6.1A

CCSS.L.6.1C

CCSS.L.6.1D

The students should have _____ books by Friday.

• his or her

• their

• they

• your

Tags

CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.3.2D

Each of the girls had to show _____ could make ten baskets in a row.

• she

• he

• they

• them

Tags

CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.1.1D

All of the band members will be in _____ seats ten minutes before the performance.

• his or her

• them

• our

• their

Tags

CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.3.2D

Anybody would be happy to have this album in _____ collection.

• their

• his or her

• our

• your

Tags

CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.1.1D

Every person must bring _____ own towel to gym class.

• their

• they

• his or her

• our

Tags

CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.1.1D