2. What is an Antecedent?
Antecedent- the word that a pronoun refers
to.
Example- “The sweet-shop in Llandaff in the year
1923 was the very centre of our lives.To us, IT was
what a bar is to a drunk, or a church to a Bishop.”
Example- “That woman over there is going to be
Dorothy for Halloween. My mother and I think
that SHE will make a fantastic Judy Garland.”
3. Antecedent
The antecedent may not always be clear and
easy to find
HINT- the ANTECEDENT will always come before
the pronoun; Never after.
HINT from Mechanically Inclined- Remember that
an ANTECEDENT is like an ANCESTOR. It comes
before. (Anderson 105)
4. WORK SHEET- Match the
Antecedent with its Pronoun
The sweet-shop in Llandaff in the year 1923 was the very
centre of our lives. To us, it was what a bar is to a drunk, or
a church to a Bishop. Without it there would have been
little to live for. But it had one terrible drawback, this
sweet-shop. The woman who owned it was a horror. We
hater her and had good reason for doing so.
Her name was Mrs. Pratchett. She was a small skinny old
hag with a moustache on her upper lip and a mouth as sour
as a gooseberry. She never smiled. She never welcomed us
when we went in, and the only times she spoke when she
had said things like “I’m watchin’ you so keep your thieven’
fingers off them chocolate!” Or “I don’t want you in ‘ere just
to look around! Either you forks out or you gets out!”
Mechanically Inclined- Anderson 106
