- Rewrite the sentence and replace the subject with a subject pronoun. Mike dropped his phone on the floor.
- Rewrite the sentence and replace the direct object with an object pronoun. Mike dropped his phone on the floor.
Lesson: First, the students completed the possessive pronoun page in their packet. Then, the students practiced identifying pronoun errors by learning about pronoun and antecedent agreement. In many sentences, a pronoun relates to another word that occurred earlier in the sentence. This other word is called an antecedent. It is usually a noun or a pronoun.
- Example: Sam dropped his backpack on the floor.
- The pronoun is "his." The antecedent is "Sam."
- Example: The horse ate its hay in the barn.
- The pronoun is "its." The antecedent is "horse."
Sometimes, people make pronoun-antecedent errors. Pronouns in a sentence should agree with its antecedent. The pronoun needs to agree in number, gender, and person.
- Example: Zane and Mark gave his report to the class.
- "His" does not agree with the antecedent "Zane and Mark."
- The sentence should say: Zane and Mark gave their report to the class.
Homework: None