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PRONOUN REFERENCE/AGREEMENT Not only do Subjects & Verbs have to agree, but Pronouns & their Antecedents do, as well. The pronoun & the word it refers back to (antecedent) must agree in number “The Trifecta” – subjects, verbs, pronouns – must all agree in number. o Singular Subject + Singular Verb + Singular Pronoun o Plural Subject + Plural Verb + Plural Pronoun SINGULAR I, me you, your, yours he, she, it his, hers, its each, everyone, anybody PLURAL we, us, ours you, your, yours they, them theirs both, few, several, many (A) **INDEFINITE PRONOUNS** most indefinite pronouns take SINGULAR verbs and pronouns a few take EITHER singular or plural, depending on the object of the preposition a few take PLURAL only SINGULAR everyone/everybody anyone/anybody someone/somebody no one/nobody each/much/one either/neither SINGULAR or PLURAL* *any *all *some *most *more *none PLURAL both many few several (*Depend on the Object of Preposition*) Each of the women on the cross country team runs well in her new shoes. Everybody has a place that he/she likes to visit often. (*generalizations like this frequently begin your essays—so get it right*) Some of the moldy bread is still in its wrapper. Some of the men have begun to grow their playoff beards. Several, fearing the amount of required work, sprint to the Registrar’s Office immediately following their first class with Dr. Housenick. ___________________________________________________________________ (B) *With COLLECTIVE NOUNS: collective nouns, such as audience, class, army, jury, family, team, and herd, usually take the SINGULAR verb (is/was) and SINGULAR pronoun (its); however, when the members of these groups act separately, then such collective nouns are PLURAL; HINT: If the word individual (or its adverb form with an -ly) fits into the sentence, then the sense is PLURAL; SIMPLE SOLUTION: when we write, most of us automatically put in the sense we intend; for example: o The individual members of the jury took their seats. o The individual soldiers fired their guns. o The committee members submitted their ballots. ___________________________________________________________________ (C) *COMPARING with PRONOUNS: remember to spell “thAn” correctly (“thEn” is an adverb) use the subjective form of the pronoun when we speak comparisons, we often abbreviate the sentence, dropping the verb: o Jennifer believes she is smarter than she/her. o Rob can dance better than she/her. to determine the proper pronoun choice, add the verb at the end of the sentence: o Jennifer believes she is smarter than she/her is. o Rob can dance better than she/her can dance. ___________________________________________________________________ (D) *PRONOUNS referring to POSSESSIVE NOUNS and OBJECTS OF PREPOSITION: pronouns cannot refer back to a possessive noun AND pronouns cannot refer back to nouns functioning as objects of a preposition: o In Thomas Harris’ recent novel, he discusses the childhood of Hannibal Lecter. Solution: make the noun the subject of the sentence: o Thomas Harris discusses the childhood of Hannibal Lecter in his recent novel.