Pronouns: Reflexive And Intensive (Page 2 of 3) in pdf

Name: __________________________________________ Date: ___________

Pronouns: Pronouns and Agreement

Use this guide to complete the activities on the next page.

Pronouns are words that take the place of nouns in sentences.

The antecedent is the word to which a pronoun refers. See the chart of

personal and indefinite pronouns below.

Personal Pronouns

Singular

First Person

Second Person

Third Person

I, me, my, mine

you, your, yours

he, she, it

myself

yourself

him, his, her, hers, its

Plural

First Person

Second Person

Third Person

we, us, our

you, your, yours,

they, them, their, theirs

ours, ourselves

yourselves

themselves

Indefinite Pronouns

Singular: another, anybody, anyone, anything, each, either, everybody,

everyone, everything, little, much, neither, nobody, no one, nothing, one,

other, somebody, someone, something

Plural: both, few, many, others, several

Singular or Plural: all, any, more, most, none, some

Pronouns must agree with their antecedents in gender and number, and must

also agree with verbs. See the examples below.

INCORRECT: Everyone bring their books to class.

CORRECT: Everyone brings his or her book to class.

Everyone is a singular pronoun and must have a singular verb and a singular

pronoun to agree with it.

Usually, a prepositional phrase does not affect agreement.

Example: The book about sports is on the shelf.

Here book is the singular subject that must agree with the verb is. The

prepositional phrase about sports only modifies book (telling which book) and

does not affect subject-verb agreement.

However, because some pronouns are either singular or plural, the

prepositional phrase can provide information.

Examples:

all of it

some of it

most of it

any of it

all of them

some of them

most of them

any of them

Pronouns: Reflexive And Intensive Page 2

Related Articles

Related forms

Related Categories