PPT-Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement

PronounAntecedent Agreement Pronouns A pronoun takes the place of one or more nouns or pronouns Example Susan watched the monkey make faces at her little brother and sister She laughed at. subject-verb . Pronoun-antecedent. Rules for subject-verb agreement. A phrase or clause . between subject and verb. does not change the number of the subject.. Ex: The women were bored. .  The women . Pronouns. A. A pronoun is a word that is used in the place of one or more nouns or pronouns.. B. Examples:. 1. When Anne Davis came to the bus stop . she. was wearing a cast.. . Pronouns. A. A pronoun is a word that is used in the place of one or more nouns or pronouns.. Definition. A pronoun (. I, me, he, she, herself, you, it, that, they, each, few, many, who, whoever, whose, someone, everybody. , etc.) is a word that takes the place of a noun. . The . antecedent. A pronoun is the part of speech that substitutes for nouns or noun phrases and designates persons or things asked for:. It can take the place of a subject word . (subject pronoun) . I, you, he, she, it, we, they. EQ: How do I identify pronouns and their antecedents?. What is a Pronoun?. A pronoun is a word that takes the place of one or more nouns (renames).. Pronouns keep us from having to repeat the same noun.. Collin Phillips, Matthew W. Wagers an Ellen F. Lau. . . April 15, 2015. The parser’s implementation of constraints – “selective fallibility”. Grammatical illusions. A presentation of findings from previous researches to create a clearer picture of the parser’s implementation of constraints. It is the noun or nouns that a pronoun is replacing or referring back to.. Example:. The . Mona Lisa. is a famous work of art from the Renaissance time period. . It. was painted by Leonardo da Vinci.. Pronouns are words that take the place of nouns. . As with verbs, there are three types of errors that a pronoun can have:. Agreement. Ambiguity. Case. AGREEMENT. Pronouns must agree in number with the nouns they replace.. What . do you need to understand . about . pronoun-antecedent agreement errors?. •. What’s a pronoun?. •. What’s an antecedent?. •. What’s a pronoun-antecedent agreement error?. What’s a Pronoun?. Author. : . Margaret E. Slattery. Genre: . Play. Small Group. Timer. Review Games. Story Sort. Vocabulary. . Words. :. Arcade Games. Study Stack . Spelling City: Vocabulary. Spelling City: Spelling Words . The first word of every sentence. . The first-person singular pronoun, . I. . . The first, last, and important words in a title. (The concept "important words" usually does not include articles, short prepositions (which means you might want to capitalize "towards" or "between," say), the "to" of an infinitive, and coordinating conjunctions. This is not true in APA Reference lists (where we capitalize only the first word), nor is it necessarily true for titles in other languages. Also, on book jackets, aesthetic considerations will sometimes override the rules.) . Preposition. A word that connects a noun or pronoun with another noun or pronoun.. Examples: in, on, at, against, with, to, for, etc.. Preposition. 3. types of prepositions. Place. Time. Direction . Genre. : . Expository Nonfiction. Big Question: How do people adapt to living with physical limitations?. Small Group. Timer. Review Games. Story Sort. Vocabulary. . Words. :. Arcade Games. Study Stack . Pronouns Mini-Lesson. Lesson Objectives:. Identify Antecedents . . Identify and distinguish the difference between a personal and possessive pronoun. Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement. A. . pronoun is a word that takes the place of a noun..