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Powerful Pronouns
Ms. Gott
7th Grade Language Arts
Pronoun
• A word that can take the place of one or more
nouns.
• Examples:
– Baseball- it
– Soldiers- they
What a sentence looks like without a
pronoun……
Without:
“The firefighters described how the
firefighters did the firefighters’ jobs.”
With:
“The firefighters described how they did their
jobs.”
Personal Pronouns
• Pronouns that refer to a person.
• Example:
– Jessica= she
Antecedent
• The word or group of words the pronoun
takes the place of.
• Example:
– The book lists inventors. It is fascinating.
• Book= Antecedent
• It= Pronoun
– Aunt Connie is a cook. She bakes pies.
• Connie= ???
• She= ???
PERSONAL PRONOUNS
Singular
First Person
Plural
I, me, my, mine we, us, our,
ours
Second Person you, your,
you, your,
yours
yours
Third Person
he, him, his,
they, them,
she,her, hers, their, theirs
it, its
You Try!!!
• Bryan likes books. _______ collects
mysteries.
• These books are rare collector’s
items. _____ can only be found in
specialty shops.
3 Cases of Personal Pronouns
• Nominative Pronoun- These pronouns
will tell WHO or WHAT the sentence is about.
(the subject of the sentence)
Singular (I, you, he, she it)
Plural ( we, you, they)
“I ate marsh-mellow peeps”
• Object Pronoun- These pronouns are the:
direct object- (after verb)
indirect object- (after verb)
object of preposition- (after preposition)
Singular (me, you, him, her, it)
Plural (us, you, them)
“You give the apple to her”
• Possessive Pronoun- Pronouns that show
ownership.
BEFORE NOUN
Singular
Plural
my
mine
your
your
his, her
their
its
My Car.
Her Apple.
Its leaves.
STANDS ALONE
Singular
Plural
mine
ours
yours
yours
his, her
theirs
its
It’s mine. That is ours.
Practice
• Identify the pronoun case: (Nom., Obj., Pos.)
– The audience gave them a standing ovation.
– The first one to finish was he.
– The yellow house is theirs.
– They will need our help.
– The notebook is his.
– I was born on the same day.
– The ghost scared us.