Mr. Loeb English II Kenwood Academy High School

Kenwood Academy 10 th grade writers will… 1.Achieve 3 points growth between the pre-PLAN and post-PLAN. 2.Achieve 85% mastery on all English and Reading College Readiness Skills covered in the course. 3.Score an average of 85% on all writing assignments by the end of the year.

We have already talked about maintaining pronoun person, but now we need to talk about pronoun- antecedent agreement. This skill can be tricky because writers often times do not make errors in pronoun-antecedent agreement within the same sentence. Most of the errors occur when the pronoun and antecedent are found in separate sentences, clauses, and sometimes paragraphs!

There are two rules that must be adhered to when dealing with pronoun-antecedent agreement: 1.A pronoun must agree with its antecedent; in other words, the pronoun must agree with the noun that appears before it and to which the pronoun is referring. 2.A pronoun is a word that takes the place of a noun (antecedent), so a writer does not have to repeat the noun over and over again.

Below are the types of pronouns we use in the English language. Memorizing the types is not as important as being able to recognize a pronoun and the noun it replaces: SingularPlural Subjectiv e ObjectivePossessi ve Subjectiv e ObjectivePossessi ve 1 st Person IMeMy, MineWeUsOur, Ours 2 nd Person You Your, Yours You Your, Yours 3 rd Person He, she, itHim, her, it His, hers, its TheyThemTheir, Theirs

Personal pronouns have the following characteristics: 1.Three Persons 1 st Person – the one(s) speaking 2 nd Person – the one(s) spoken to 3 rd Person – the one(s) spoken about 2.Three Genders (feminine, masculine, neuter) 3.Two Numbers (singular and plural) 4.Three Cases (subjective, objective, possessive)

Reflexive pronouns are the “self” pronouns. These pronouns can be used only to reflect or intensify a word already there in the sentence. Reflexive pronoun CANNOT REPLACE personal pronouns. myself, himself, herself, itself, yourself, themselves, ourselves Note: No such words as theirselves, theirself, hisself, ourself.

A pronoun must agree with its antecedent in three ways: –Person –Gender –Number

Example of Person Incorrect: When a person is ill, you don’t want to do anything but sleep. Correct: When a person is ill, he or she doesn’t want to do anything but sleep. Example of Number Incorrect: When my friend is ill, they don’t want to do anything but sleep. Correct: When my friend is ill, she doesn’t want to do anything but sleep. Example of Gender Incorrect: When anybody is ill, they don’t want to do anything but sleep. Correct: When anybody is ill, he or she doesn’t want to do anything but sleep.

There are two rules that must be adhered to when dealing with pronoun-antecedent agreement: 1.A pronoun must agree with its antecedent; in other words, the pronoun must agree with the noun that appears before it and to which the pronoun is referring. 2.A pronoun is a word that takes the place of a noun (antecedent), so a writer does not have to repeat the noun over and over again. Remember, sometimes the pronoun and antecedent are found in separate sentences, clauses, and sometimes paragraphs!