1. Author: Margaret E. Slattery Genre: Play
Big Question: How can a mistake turn into a success?

2. Grammar Pronouns and Antecedents

3. Pronouns and Antecedents
The King took the soup and threw it on the floor.
The pronoun it refers to soup. Soup is the antecedent of it.

4. Pronouns and Antecedents
A pronoun takes the place of a noun or nouns.
An antecedent, or referent, is the noun or nouns to which the pronoun refers. A pronoun and its antecedent must agree in number and gender.

5. Pronouns and Antecedents
Before you use a pronoun, ask yourself whether the antecedent is singular or plural. If the antecedent is singular, decide whether it is masculine, feminine, or neuter. Then choose a pronoun that agrees.

6. Pronouns and Antecedents
In the following sentences, the antecedents are underlined once; the pronouns are underlined twice.
The maid was sitting at a table, where she was peeling potatoes.
The cook and the maid were amazed when they saw the King in the kitchen.

7. Pronouns and Antecedents Match the pronoun with the noun or noun phrase that could be its antecedent. it we he they she
two kitchen maids
they
dungeon it
the Princess
she

8. Pronouns and Antecedents Match the pronoun with the noun or noun phrase that could be its antecedent. it we he they she
the peasant and I we
the King he

9. Pronouns and Antecedents What is the correct pronoun to complete each sentence?
Cook spoke to the guard when (he, it) walked through her kitchen. he
The King made Cook blindfold (her, him).
him

10. Pronouns and Antecedents What is the correct pronoun to complete each sentence?
He had tried Cook’s soup and said (he, it) was awful. it
Cook told him that (she, them) had worked hard to make the soup.
she

11. Pronouns and Antecedents What is the correct pronoun to complete each sentence?
The Princess and the peasant said that (she, they) were in love.
they
The King called for Cook and sent (it, her) to cooking school.
her

12. Pronouns and Antecedents What is the correct pronoun to complete each sentence?
When you and I read this play, (we, they) acted it out. we