Pronouns

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Pronouns
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Why Use Pronouns?

• Pronouns stand in for nouns, so you dont have to
  repeat yourself.
• Restate the following sentence as if you were
  Kyley

• Kyley broke the window when Kyley hit the
  baseball with Kyleys bat.

• I broke the window when I hit the baseball with
  my bat.

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3 Kinds of Personal Pronouns
Singular Plural
First Person I, me, my, mine we, us, our, ours
Second Person you, your, yours you, your, yours
Third Person he, him, his she, her, hers it, its they, them, their, theirs
After you have filled in your shapes, flip to the
back of each shape and write a sentence using at
least 2 pronouns from inside the shape. Share
these with a friend.
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Reflexive Pronouns

• Reflexive pronouns are pronouns which end with
  the suffix self or selves
• These pronouns name a person or thing that
  receives an action when that same person or thing
  is the one performing the action

• Example We laughed at ourselves.

• Write your own example and share it with the
  class.

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Demonstrative Pronouns

• Demonstrative pronouns help you demonstrate by
  pointing out a person, place, or thing
• There are only four this, that, these, those
• Antecendent the noun that the pronoun stands in
  for
• This and these point to what is nearby
• That and those point to what is farther away

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Antecedents

• In the following sentences, first identify the
  pronoun. Then identify the antecedent.

• This is the pen he used to write the note.

• This is the pen he used to write the note.

• This is the pen he used to write the note.

• The bat built its home in our attic.

• The bat built its home in our attic.

• The bat built its home in our attic.

• Was that the road we were supposed to take?

• Was that the road we were supposed to take?

• Was that the road we were supposed to take?

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A Common Pronoun Dilemma . . .

• Singular or Plural??
• Singular pronouns only replace singular nouns
• Kathy broke the vase. She was guilty!
• Plural pronouns only replace plural nouns
• Mark and Kathy were playing ball in the house.
  They disobeyed the rules!

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Another Common Pronoun Dilemma . . .

• I or me?? when there are more than one persons
  involved
• I will always be the subject doing the action.
• Tom and I played chess last week.
• Me will always be the noun receiving the action.
• Catherine let Tom and me play chess at her house.

Check your answer by taking out the other
persons name and reading the sentence with just
the pronoun to see if its correct!
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Name That Pronoun

• Use your pronoun shape notes as reference
• On each jigsaw puzzle that follows, if there is a
  word in yellow, change it to the correct pronoun
• You must then identify the type of pronoun it is

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played
goalie
Jared
What pronoun is it??
Third Person Singular
his
Jared
for
soccer
team
today.
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is
the
This
This
What pronoun is it??
I
article
Demonstrative
mentioned
to
you.
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bought
herself
Julia
Julia
What pronoun is it??
Third Person Singular Reflexive
ticket
a
to
the
movie.
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actors
took
The
What pronoun is it??
Third Person Plural
the actors
bow
their
after
the
play.