1. Personal Pronouns Parts of Speech 3

2. What Are Pronouns? Pronouns take the place of nouns. Tim went to Tim’s house to do Tim’s chores. Tim went to his house to do his chores.

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

4. Pronoun Case SubjectiveObjectivePossessive 1st-PersonI We It Me Us It My, Mine Our, Ours Its 2nd-PersonYou Your 3rd-PersonHe, She They Him, Her Them His, Hers Their

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. 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.

8. Practice 1.Write the sentence. 2.Circle the pronouns. 3. Write whether they are subjective, objective, or possessive.

9. 1 He walked to school.

10. 2 The dog wagged her tail.

11. 3 We like candy.

12. 4 Jennifer and I swam in the lake yesterday.

13. 5 Jennifer dunked me in the water.

14. 6 Do you need a table for three?

15. 7 John and Mary beat them during the basketball game.

16. 8 Can the engineer repair it ?

17. 9 Anthony drove us to school today.

18. 10 She is clever.