Pronouns and Pronoun Reference

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Pronouns and Pronoun Reference

• Wednesday, April 4, 2007

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Agenda

• Collect Journal Response Assignment
• Vocabulary Presentation
• Pronouns and Pronoun Reference

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Homework

• The final draft of your interview essay due next
  class
• Read Academic Writing Chapter 9 pp. 153-179

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Vocabulary Presentation

• Estelle
• Jialin
• Amily
• Shuai

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Vocabulary Presentation

• Yuhang (Ted)
• Tee
• Jie
• Peng Hooi
• Irene
• Itcho
• Insik (Danny)

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Personal Pronouns

• Subject vs. Object Pronoun
• He planed a vocation.
• They invited me to the party.

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Personal Pronouns

• Use an object pronoun after a preposition
• between you and me
• behind him
• in front of me
• against her

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Personal Pronouns

• Possessive Pronouns (mine, ours, yours, his,
  hers, theirs)
• Use a possessive pronoun alone, with no noun
  following it.
• That coat is hers.
• This book is mine.

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Personal Pronouns

• its and its
• its is a possessive adjective
• e.g. its whisk, its legs, etc
• its it is or it has
• Its a new muffler. Its been replaced before.

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Personal Pronouns

• Reflexive pronouns
• myself, ourselves, yourself, yourselves,
  himself, herself, itself, themselves, oneself.
• He bought himself a new watch.
• The squirrel found itself some food.

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Pronoun Reference

• Use a pronoun to refer to a noun phrase mentioned
  nearby (an antecedent).
• The general promised his troops that he would
  send them home soon.

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Pronoun Reference

• The antecedent should be clear and not ambiguous.
  
• When the refugee applied for a passport, they
  asked him for many documents.
• The argument between Max and his boss upset him
  a great deal.

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Pronoun Agreement

• Singular vs. Plural
• Mary has lost her purse.
• The twins have lost their passports.

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Pronoun Agreement

• Gender
• My father never visits his aunt.
• My mother often visits her uncle.

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Pronoun Agreement

• Singular collective noun
• a group it
• a family it
• a collection it

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Pronoun Agreement

• Singular indefinite pronoun
• everyone, everybody, someone he or she
• each, every noun he or she, or it

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Pronoun Agreement

• Uncountable noun always singular
• advice it
• furniture it
• information it

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Pronoun Agreement

• Plural countable nouns, compound noun phrases,
  and some collective nouns.
• Doctors they, their
• the teacher and the student they, their
• The young they, their
• The police they, their

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Exercise

• P. 110