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2. A pronoun is a word that
is used in place of a noun
or another pronoun.

3. A pronoun can refer to a person,
place, thing, or idea.

4. REFERS TO
The word that a pronoun refers
to is called its antecedent.
Ramon visited Death Valley, and he
was impressed.

5. Pronouns such as we, I, he,
them and it are called
personal pronouns.
Personal pronouns
have a variety of
forms to indicate
different persons,
numbers, and
cases.

6. There are first-person,
second-person, and
third-person personal
pronouns, each having both
singular and plural forms.

7. Singular Plural
FIRST PERSON FIRST PERSON
SECOND PERSON SECOND PERSON
THIRD PERSON THIRD PERSON
I went out. We left early.
You left too. You are leaving.
He came by bus. They came by car.

8. Each personal pronoun
forms three cases:
subject, object, and
possessive.

9. POSSESSIVE
OBJECT
SUBJECT
He read about Death Valley.
Julie asked him about the rocks.
Ramon bought his book.
Choose the pronoun form depending on
the pronoun’s function in the sentence.

10. Pronouns help you talk about people concisely
when you’re telling a story.

11. Write the personal pronoun in the
sentence below.
1. Death Valley is famous for its
strange moving boulders.
2. The rocks slide and leave long
tracks behind them.
3. Do you know why this
happens?
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13. The antecedent is the
noun or pronoun that a
pronoun replaces or refers
to.

14. Use a singular pronoun to refer to a
singular antecedent.
One story has its setting in Egypt.story its

15. Use a plural pronoun to refer to a
plural antecedent.
The characters have their motives for murder.characters their

16. The pronoun must agree in person
with the antecedent.
Louis likes his mysteries to
have surprise endings.
Louis his

17. The gender of the pronoun must be the
same as the gender of its antecedent.

18. Personal pronouns have three gender forms:
• masculine he, his, him
• feminine she, her, hers
• neuter it, its

19. The hero has to use all his
wits to solve the crime.
Agatha Christie sets many of her
stories in England.
Agatha Christie her
hero his

20. In your writing, you will
sometimes refer to several
people or groups of people.
Correct pronoun-antecedent
agreement will help your
readers keep track of who is
who in your writing.

21. Write the pronouns and their antecedents
in these sentences.
Agatha Christie loved real-life
mysteries of the past. She helped to
investigate them in the Middle East.
A mystery writer may use exotic
places and backgrounds for his or her
stories.
1.
2.
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