Personal Pronouns Lesson

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Personal Pronouns

Parts of Speech 3
What Are Pronouns?
Pronouns take the place of nouns.

Tim went to Tim’s house to do Tim’s chores.


Tim went to his house to do his chores.
Subjects and Objects
Subjects take actions in a sentence.
Objects take no action.

Example
He punched her.
She told on him.
Pronoun Case
Subjective Objective Possessive

1st-Person I Me My, Mine


Plural We Us Our, Ours
2nd-Person You You Your

3rd-Person He, She Him, Her His, Hers


Plural They Them Their
Do We Need Subjects or Objects?

Todd and I / me went to the swimming hole.


She wants to talk to me / I and Todd.
Us / We teachers love giving homework.

Subjects are usually on the left of the verb.


Objects are usually on the right.
Antecedents
The nouns to which the pronouns refer.

Chris went to the store by himself.

The dog wagged his tail.

Most students want lockers, but many are


not responsible enough.
Vague Pronouns
The antecedent is not clear.

Take the radio out of the car and fix it.

The teachers told the students that they


would have to come to school over break.
Practice
1. Write the sentence.
2. Circle the pronouns.
3. Write whether they are subjective,
objective, or possessive.
1
He walked to school.
2
The dog wagged her tail.
3
We like candy.
4

Jeb and I swam.


5

Jeb dunked me in the water.

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