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Personal Pronouns

Personal Pronouns. Parts of Speech 3. 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. Subjects and Objects. Subjects take actions in a sentence. Objects take no action. Example

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Personal Pronouns

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  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 hishouse 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

  5. Do We Need Subjects or Objects? Todd and I / mewent 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 • Write the sentence. • 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 Jeb and I swam.

  13. 5 Jeb dunked me in the water.

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