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Grammar Pronoun Antecedent Agreement

Nov 20, 2014

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One thing constantly overlooked is pronoun antecedent agreement. This describes exactly what it is and how you should avoid that mistake in your writing.
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Page 1: Grammar Pronoun Antecedent Agreement

Pronoun Antecedent Agreement

Making 3rd person flow

Page 2: Grammar Pronoun Antecedent Agreement

What is a pronoun?• The part of speech that

can take the place of a noun in a sentence and function as a noun.

• Jake is a good athlete. He excels at football, soccer, and baseball.

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What is an antecedent?• The word, phrase, or clause

referred to by a pronoun.• If a pronoun does not refer

clearly to the word it substitutes for (its antecedent), readers will have difficulty grasping the pronoun’s meaning.

• Jake is a good athlete, and he excels at football, soccer, and baseball.

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Pronouns and antecedentsPronoun and

antecedents must

• Agree (in number & kind)

• Be clear

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Single Antecedent• Emily Dickinson is sometimes

compared with Jane Austen, but she was quite different.

Clear Revisions:• Emily Dickinson is sometimes

compared with Jane Austen, but Dickinson was quite different.

• Despite occasional comparison, Emily Dickinson and Jane Austen were quite different.

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Close Antecedent• Jody found a dress in the attic

that her aunt had worn.

Clear Revisions:

• In the attic Jody found a dress that her aunt had worn.

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Pronoun Antecedent Agreement• Homeowners fret over their

tax bills.

• For clarity, a pronoun should always agree with its antecedent in person (first, second, third), number (singular, plural), and gender (masculine, feminine, neuter).

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Pronoun Antecedent Agreement• The instructor and the

sergeant have offered their help.

• Note: When each or every precedes the compound antecedent, the pronoun is singular.

• Every boy and man took his seat.

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Pronoun Antecedent Agreement• Everyone on the women’s

team now has her own locker.

• Each of the men has his own locker.

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Pronoun Antecedent Agreement• Each athlete is entitled to his

own locker.

• All athletes are entitled to their own lockers.

Or• Each athlete is entitled to a

locker.

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Where’s the problem?• A reader may often not like

Faulkner’s “Barn Burning” because the story confuses them.

• Readers may often not like Faulkner’s “Barn Burning” because the story confuses them.

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Where’s the problem?• An author’s cultural

background can play a large part in their writing.

• An author’s cultural background can play a large part in her writing.

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Take a look at this…• Tan planned this trip, so she

could learn more about her mother, such as where she had lived and see her daughters she had left behind.

• Tan planned this trip, so she could learn more about her mother, such as where she had lived and see the daughters that she had left behind.