1 / 10

Person pronouns

Person pronouns. If everyone picked up a single piece of litter every day, it would discover that the planet would become a much cleaner place.

axl
Download Presentation

Person pronouns

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Person pronouns • If everyone picked up a single piece of litter every day, it would discover that the planet would become a much cleaner place. • If a person wants to eat healthy fast food, it should try Tito’s Taco Palace because it generously provides at least four ounces of high-protein insects in every tortilla. RULE: PEOPLE NEEED PEOPLE PRONOUNS. ONLY THINGS GET REPLACED WITH “IT”

  2. We • If everyone picked up a single piece of letter every day, we would discover that the planet would become a much cleaner place. • Before a person adopts a big, hairy dog, we need to consider the amount of time spent vacuuming the floors. RULE: “WE” CAN ONLY BE USED WHEN THE SPEAKER IS TALKING ABOUT HIMSELF WITH OTHERS.

  3. You • If a person wants to eat healthy fast food, you should try Tito’s Taco Palace. • My friends would argue less if everyone kept opinions about things to yourself. RULE: ‘YOU’ IS ONLY USED WHEN TALKING DIRECTLY TO SOMEONE.

  4. Replacing ‘their’ with ‘them’ or ‘they’‘themselves’ with ‘theirselves’‘it’ with ‘its’‘she/he’ with ‘her/his’ • Why doesn’t this fix the problem? • Before a person adopts a big, hairy dog, they/them need to consider the amount of time spent vacuuming the floors. • My friends would argue less if everyone kept their opinions to themselves/theirselves. RULE: IF THE PN DOESN’T AGREE IN NUMBER WITH ITS ANTECEDENT, CHANGING THE FORM WON’T HELP.

  5. It is = it’s ≠ its • My thirty-six-year-old brother still prizes a squirrel skull and a cigar box full of baseball cards because it is a relic from his happy childhood. • My thirty-six-year-old brother still prizes a squirrel skull and a cigar box full of baseball cards because it’s a relic from his happy childhood. • My thirty-six-year-old brother still prizes a squirrel skull and a cigar box full of baseball cards because its a relic from his happy childhood.

  6. It is = it’s ≠ its RULE: IT IS = IT’S. THIS MEANS THE SAME THING SO IT DOESN’T CHANGE ANYTHING WHEN YOU FLIP-FLOP THEM. RULE: IT IS/IT’S ≠ ITS. ‘ITS’ IS THE POSSESSIVE FORM OF ‘IT.’ REPLACING ‘IT’ WITH ‘ITS’ ONLY CHANGES THE FORM, NOT THE AGREEMENT.

  7. Or/nor; not only…but also RULE: USE WHAT IS CLOSEST TO THE PRONOUN • Not only the cats but also Jasper the dog believes that the bed is theirs, and humans are permitted to sleep on it only because they warm the mattress. • Not only the council members but also the mayor donated their lunch money to a downtown shelter for World Hunger Day.

  8. interrupters RULE: MARK OUT THE INTERRUPTERS / PREPOSITIONAL PHRASES. THEN FIND WHAT NOUN IS BEING REPLACED. • Captain Kirk, as well as the other bridge crew, denied that they had dented the right thruster of the Enterprise while buzzing a Romulan outpost. • My friend Eric, like too many students in our Basic Spanish class, believes that they don’t need to learn a foreign language.

  9. Each/everyneither RULE: EACH/EVERY/NEITHER ARE ALWAYS SINGULAR • Every student, professor, librarian, groundskeeper, secretary, and coach cheered their approval when the cafeteria staff agreed to treat vegetables more kindly. • Each pig, chicken, goose, and rabbit breathed a sigh of relief and wiped the proverbial sweat from their brows when Farmer Jackson grabbed a rake instead of the butchering hatchet. • Neither of those two surfers realizes their dangling arms and splashing legs are captivating a hungry shark.

  10. Everyone/everybody/everything RULE: ALWAYS SINGULAR • If everyone picked up a single piece of little every day, they would discover that the planet would become a much cleaner place. • Everybody needs to remember to brush their teeth in the morning.

More Related