Pronouns

A pronoun is a word that takes the place of a noun. There are different kinds of pronouns. Personal Pronouns Personal pronouns may be used as: the subject of a verb, or the object of a verb. Subject Pronouns The subject of a verb does the action of the verb. The personal pronouns I, you, he, she, it, we and they can all be used as the subject of a verb. Study the following two sentences: Lisa likes cats. She has four cats. In the first sentence, the

1 Lesson: Pronouns and Antecedents Learning Target • Ensure that pronouns agree with and clearly refer to their antecedents. Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement Pronouns are words that refer to persons, places, ideas, and things. They take the place of nouns or other pronouns or refer to people, places, things, and ideas. The words they take the place of or refer to are called the pronouns’ antecedents. Pronouns should agree with (have the same gender and number as) their antecedents. Pronouns can be masculine

My Weakness Became My Strength: Pronoun-Antecedent People always say practice makes perfect and that cannot be any truer when it comes to writing. The more times I write an essay, the better I get at them. Even from the very beginning of my English career, I have always had to work on improving from my mistakes. Throughout the semester, I have realized that I have a problem with pronoun-antecedent agreements. In the past, I was not aware of pronoun-antecedent agreement problems in my papers. I had

Parts of speech are the basic words that English has. They are what we use every day in our life. There are a total of eight parts of speech but recently there has been another one added. The nine parts of speech are: noun, verb, adjective, adverb, pronoun, conjunction, preposition, and interjection. It is important to be able to recognize and identify the different types of words in English, so that you can understand grammar explanations and use the right word form in the right place in any situation

List all of the noun phrases in the passage, including the pronouns. After you have studied the list write an essay on how the noun phrases contribute to the text. How do they relate to what is being described in the extract? In Lindsey Davis’s Ode to a Banker, there are many uses of the noun phrase. The noun phrase is a phrase that contains a noun as well as other constituents (Yule 2010, p291). The noun can stand on its own as the noun phrase or include the use of articles and modifiers to enhance

the most riveting moments in this novel, was discovery made by Equality. This society takes place in an unknown date far in the future, where an individual was raised to call themselves “we” in honor of their brothers in society. Any first person pronoun was unknown to this society because it was seen as selfish to have an ego. Equality however, was different from the rest of his brothers. He was the pariah in a crowd, both literally and mentally. As a six feet tall individual that was much stronger

throughout the entire play, knowing he must kill his uncle to avenge his father, while simultaneously failing to take action with every opportunity that presents itself. Throughout Hamlet’s soliloquy, “To Be or Not To Be”, Shakespeare avoids personal pronouns, while also using generalized diction and ambiguous, philosophical language in order to further his dismissal of his own situation, showing, rather, his contemplation of life and death as a whole. The beginning of Hamlet’s soliloquy is perhaps the

Introduce the issue Gender pronouns are an ever growing issue in our world, developing into an exceptionally hot topic in today’s society. There are some citizens out there who prefer the use of non-binary pronouns such as they/their instead of him/her, because they feel as though their gender should not be assumed. Even though some people may not agree with banning gender pronouns, it would protect transgender and other non-binary people from discrimination, expand the possibilities

Karina Mousessian Ms. Stevenson English II Frankenstein Essay In Frankenstein, written by Mary Shelley, the creation, made from scraps of corpses, was built by Victor Frankenstein, a man fascinated and obsessed with the knowledge of life. Following the creation’s rouse, Victor immediately abandons him with no desire on keeping or teaching his new being. Because of his lack of nourishment and direction “growing up”, the creation goes through a process of self-deception. He endures a period of deceit

little skill I had when it came to grammar. It still boggles my mind that it took twelve years of school before I met a teacher who really, really cared about how I composed my sentences. She wanted us to know what adjectives, prepositions, nouns, pronouns, and run on sentences were. However, she knew we didn’t. On the first day of class, she made the