Grade 7 - grammar

What is an antecedent?

• A Person, Place, Thing, or Idea
• An Action Word
• A word that describes nouns
• The word the pronoun is replacing

Choose the word that is not a pronoun.

• is

• me

• he

• they

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

What is the antecedent of the pronoun "their"?
Students should go to their classes prepared.

• Students
• should
• classes
• prepared

Should the pronoun in red be changed?  Robert and Sue Ellen concentrated on the computer.  They read each question carefully as they took the quiz. 

• Make it "He" because Robert is first
• Make it "She" because Sue Ellen is closest to the pronoun
• Make it any singular pronoun
• No change is necessary

What pronoun should replace the second Tito's Taco Palace in red?  The students have decided to eat at Tito's Taco Palace, where they can order the special.  Tito's Taco Palace's prices are very low. 

• Its
• Their
• Everyone's 
• No change is needed

What is the antecedent of the pronoun "her"?
My mother ate her salad.

• My
• Mother
• ate
• salad

What is the pronoun for the sentence? Nani reads about the water cycle. _____ learned about evaporation.

• they

• he

• her

• she

What is the pronoun for the sentence? Mario sat beside Henri. _________ went to lunch together.

• she

• we

• they

• him

A pronoun....

• ...is a noun.

• ...is a word that takes the place of on or more nouns.

• ...is just a word that mean to be proactive.

• ...is a word.