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Pronouns: part 1

8 TH GRADE ENGLISH. Pronouns: part 1. What is a pronoun?. A PRONOUN is a word that is used IN PLACE of a NOUN or another PRONOUN. The word a pronoun replaces is called the ANTECEDENT Maria was lost. She didn’t panic. Maria = antecedent She = pronoun

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Pronouns: part 1

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  1. 8TH GRADE ENGLISH Pronouns: part 1

  2. What is a pronoun? • A PRONOUN is a word that is used IN PLACE of a NOUN or another PRONOUN. • The word a pronoun replaces is called the ANTECEDENT • Maria was lost. She didn’t panic. • Maria = antecedent • She = pronoun • She checked the flashlight. It still worked. • Flashlight = antecedent • It = pronoun

  3. What is a pronoun? • PERSONAL PRONOUNS:

  4. What is a pronoun? • Pause the video. Number your paper from 1-5. List the personal pronoun(s) in each sentence. • Hannah Nyla is known for her tacking expertise. • She has found many lost hikers before they got into real trouble. • She wrote a book called Point Last Seen. • She learned some of her skills in the Mojave and Kalahari deserts. • Other experts remind us to plan ahead for danger.

  5. Possessive Pronouns • A POSSESSIVE PRONOUN is a personal pronoun used to show OWNERSHIP OR RELATIONSHIP • Do not confuse possessive pronouns with contractions.

  6. 8TH GRADE ENGLISH Pronouns: part 2

  7. Reflexive and Intensive Pronouns • A pronoun that ends in SELF OR SELVES is either a REFLEXIVE or INTENSIVE pronoun

  8. Reflexive and Intensive Pronouns • Pause the video. Number your paper from 1-5. Write the reflexive or intensive pronoun in each sentence. • Ben Carson considered himself the dumbest kid in class. • His mother was raising Ben and his brother herself. • When she saw his report card, she decided that she herself would give him extra homework assignments. • She also told her sons to limit themselves to only two TV shows a week. • Ben outdid himself.

  9. Interrogatives and Demonstratives • INTERROGATIVE PRONOUNS are used to introduce a QUESTION. • WHO, WHOM, WHAT, WHICH, AND WHOSE • Who used up all the water? • Whose cup is this?

  10. Interrogatives and Demonstratives • Use WHO as a subject or a predicate pronoun. • Who called the power company? (subject) • The electrician is who? (predicate pronoun) • Use WHOM as an object. • Whom did you call? (direct object) • You gave whom my number? (indirect object) • To whom did you speak? (Object of a preposition)

  11. Interrogatives and Demonstratives • A DEMONSTRATIVE PRONOUN points out a person, place, thing, or idea. • THIS, THAT, THESE, THOSE • THAT is a circuit breaker. • THIS is our emergency shelter. • THOSE are electrical appliances. • THESE are bottles of water • Never use here or there with a demonstrative pronoun.

  12. Interrogatives and Demonstratives • Pause the video. Choose the correct word in parentheses. Identify it as an interrogative or demonstrative. • (What, Whose) would you do if a natural disaster struck close to home? • (That, Those) is a good question. • (These, That) is a situation in which you might not have access to water, food, or electronics. • To (who, whom) should you turn to for advice? • The Federal Emergency Management Agency has a plan. (This, That) is its most important advice: store lots of clean water ahead of time.

  13. 8TH GRADE ENGLISH Pronouns: part 3

  14. Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement • The ANTECEDENT is the noun or pronoun that a pronoun replaces or refers to. The antecedent can be in the same sentence or a different sentence. • AGREEMENT IN NUMBER: Use a SINGULAR pronoun for a SINGULAR antecedent and a PLURAL pronoun for a PLURAL antecedent • Hopi culture, in all its forms, is alive and well. • Culture is the antecedent, its is the pronoun. Both are singular. • Traditional members keep cattle on their farms. • Members is the antecedent, there is the pronoun. Both are plural.

  15. Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement • AGREEMENT IN PERSON: The pronoun must agree in PERSON with the ANTECEDENT • We like to listen to our grandparents’ stories. • We and our are both in the first person. • Visitors realize you can learn from other cultures. • Visitors is third person BUT you is second person. They do not agree. • Correct: Visitors realize they can learn from other cultures. (visitors and they are third person)

  16. Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement • AGREEMENT IN GENDER: The gender of the pronoun must be the SAME as the gender of the antecedent • Derrick Davis performs his hoop dances. (Both Derrick Davis and his are masculine) • Each dancer has his or her favorite moves. (the dancer could be a male or female) • The dancers have their favorite moves. (dancers and theirs are both plural pronouns that do not specify a gender)

  17. Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement • POP QUIZ TOMORROW 

  18. Pronoun Problems • WE AND US WITH NOUNS: Use WE when the pronoun is a subject or a predicate pronoun and use US when the pronoun is an object. • We humans don’t always appreciate trees. • Drop the identifying noun to test – We don’t always appreciate trees. • Trees can feed and shelter us humans. • Again, drop the identifying noun – Trees can feed and shelter us.

  19. Pronoun Problems • UNCLEAR REFERNCE: Sometimes it is unclear as to which noun a pronoun refers to. • For example: Sara and Anne want to become tree farmers. She works after school at an orchard. (Who works at the orchard, Sarah or Anne?) • Clarify: Sarah and Anne want to become tree farmers. Anne works after school at an orchard. (A pronoun is not useful in this sentence)

  20. Pronoun Problems • USING PRONOUNS IN COMPOUNDS: Use the subject pronoun I, she, he, we or they in a compound subject or with a predicated noun or pronoun. • Greg and she decided to learn more about Sacajawea. (To see which pronoun is correct, get rid of the other subject or predicate. She decided to learn more about Sacajawea.) • Use the object pronoun me, her, him, us, or them in a compound object. • Her story has always fascinated Polly and me. (Again, use the same test. Her story has always fascinated me.)

  21. Pronoun Problems • PHRASES THAT INTEREFERE: Sometimes a group of words comes between the noun a pronoun that refers to it. Get rid of the extra words to choose a correct pronoun. • Sacajawea, who guided Lewis and Clark, never lost her way. To test, Sacajawea never lost her way. Sacajawea and her match. • About 40 men started up the Missouri River on their voyage. To test, About 40 men started on their voyage. Men and their match.

  22. Pronoun Problems • Pause the video. Write the correct word for each sentence. • Everyone likes to think that (he or she, they) will leave a mark on the world. • What did all of those experts finally agree on? (He or she, They) put nineteen items in the capsule. • For decades, (we, us) carpenters used the wood from chestnut trees to build houses. • Chestnuts were a nutritious food for both (we, us) country dwellers and wildlife. • Meriwether Lewis is a favorite topic for Polly and (me, I). • In 1803, President Jefferson sent (he, him) and William Clark to explore thousands of miles of wilderness. • Lewis and Clark met Sacajawea, a young Shoshone woman, in 1804; (they, she) hired her as a guide.

  23. Pronoun Problems

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