Personal Pronouns

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Personal Pronouns

• Parts of Speech 3

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What Are Pronouns?

• Pronouns take the place of nouns.
• Tim went to Tims house to do Tims chores.
• Tim went to his house to do his chores.

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Subjects and Objects

• Subjects take actions in a sentence.
• Objects take no action.
• Example
• He punched her.
• She told on him.

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Pronoun Case
Subjective Objective Possessive
1st-Person Plural I We Me Us My, Mine Our, Ours
2nd-Person You You Your
3rd-Person Plural He, She They Him, Her Them His, Hers Their
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Do We Need Subjects or Objects?

• Todd and I / me went to the swimming hole.
• She wants to talk to me / I and Todd.
• Us / We teachers love giving homework.
• Subjects are usually on the left of the verb.
• Objects are usually on the right.

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Antecedents

• The nouns to which the pronouns refer.
• Chris went to the store by himself.
• The dog wagged his tail.
• Most students want lockers, but many are not
  responsible enough.

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Vague Pronouns

• The antecedent is not clear.
• Take the radio out of the car and fix it.
• The teachers told the students that they would
  have to come to school over break.

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Practice

• Write the sentence.
• Circle the pronouns.
• 3. Write whether they are subjective, objective,
  or possessive.

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• He walked to school.

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• The dog wagged her tail.

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• We like candy.

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• Jeb and I swam.

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• Jeb dunked me in the water.