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    MONIKA SINGH
    B.Ed. (2nd Year )
    Roll No. 5261610033
    Pronouns
    Pronouns

    What is a Pronoun?
    Heres the Idea
    Why It Matters
    Practice and Apply
    Heres the Idea

    Pronoun

    A pronoun is a word that is


    used in place of a noun or
    another pronoun.
    Heres the Idea

    A pronoun can refer to a person,


    place, thing, or idea.
    Heres the Idea

    The word that a pronoun refers


    to is called its antecedent.

    Ramon visited Death Valley, and he


    was impressed.
    Heres the Idea

    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.
    Heres the Idea

    There are first-person,


    second-person, and
    third-person personal
    pronouns, each having both
    singular and plural forms.
    Heres the Idea

    Singular Plural

    I went out. We left early.


    FIRST PERSON FIRST PERSON

    You left too. You are leaving.


    SECOND PERSON SECOND PERSON

    He came by bus. They came by car.


    THIRD PERSON THIRD PERSON
    Heres the Idea

    Each personal pronoun


    forms three cases:
    subject, object, and
    possessive.
    Heres the Idea

    Choose the pronoun form depending on


    the pronouns function in the sentence.

    He read about Death Valley.


    SUBJECT

    Julie asked him about the rocks.


    OBJECT

    Ramon bought his book.


    POSSESSIVE
    Why It Matters

    Pronouns help you talk about people concisely


    when youre telling a story.
    Practice and Apply

    Write the personal pronoun in the


    sentence below.

    1. Death Valley is famous for its


    strange moving boulders.
    Practice and Apply

    Write the personal pronoun in the


    sentence below.

    2. The rocks slide and leave long


    tracks behind them.
    Practice and Apply

    Write the personal pronoun in the


    sentence below.

    3. Do you know why this happens?


    Pronouns

    Pronoun Agreement
    Heres the Idea
    Why It Matters
    Practice and Apply
    Heres the Idea

    Antecedent

    The antecedent is the noun or


    pronoun that a pronoun
    replaces or refers to.
    Heres the Idea

    Use a singular pronoun to refer to a


    singular antecedent.

    One story has its setting in Egypt.


    Heres the Idea

    Use a plural pronoun to refer to a


    plural antecedent.

    The characters have their motives for murder.


    Heres the Idea

    The pronoun must agree in person


    with the antecedent.

    Louis likes his mysteries to


    have surprise endings.
    Heres the Idea

    The gender of the pronoun must be the


    same as the gender of its antecedent.
    Heres the Idea

    Personal pronouns have three gender forms:

    masculine he, his, him

    feminine she, her, hers

    neuter it, its


    Heres the Idea

    Agatha Christie sets many of her


    her
    stories in England.

    The hero has to use all his


    wits to solve the crime.
    Why It Matters

    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.
    Practice and Apply

    Write the pronouns and their antecedents


    in these sentences.

    4. Agatha Christie loved real-life


    mysteries of the past. She helped to
    investigate them in the Middle East.
    Practice and Apply

    Write the pronouns and their antecedents


    in this sentence.

    5. Agatha Christie and her husband


    went on many archaeological trips
    and found them exciting.
    Practice and Apply

    Write the pronouns and their antecedents


    in this sentence.

    6. A mystery writer may use exotic


    places and backgrounds for his or
    her stories.
    Practice and Apply

    Write the pronouns and their antecedents


    in this sentence.

    7. Christie started Murder in


    Mesopotamia in the desert, but she
    finished it in England.

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