Language Arts = Word Power Stations Homework

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Language Arts = “Word Power” Stations Homework

10/5/09 Team always beats individual.

Pronoun Study Guide: Homework

Directions:

1. Be sure to study what you do not understand and come to class with questions

for me.

Pronoun Charts

Use your notes to fill in the pronouns charts. Be sure to fill them in EXACTLY the way you see them. Then label the charts with the correct pronoun cases, or types.

1. Pronoun Case: ______

I / we
you (all)
he, she,

2. Pronoun Case: ______

yours
his, hers, its, / theirs

3 Pronoun Case: ______

me
you / you (all)
it

4. Pronoun Case: ______

our
your / your (all)
her / their

5. Pronoun Case: ______

ourselves
yourself / yourselves (all)
______herself ______/ ______

Subject, Object, Possessive and Reflexive Pronouns

Circle the correct pronoun for each sentence. Write the pronoun case on the line.

SP= subject pronoun OP= object pronoun PP= possessive pronoun RP=reflexive pronoun

1. ______(He, Him) and (I, me) went to the movie.

2. ______The cat cleaned (it, itself) with (it’s, its) tongue.

3. ______This book must be (your, yours) because I have (my, mine) here.

4. ______Between you and (I, me), I thought it was (her, she) and not Mary.

5. ______(We, Us) students planned a picnic for (they, them) on Saturday.

6. ______(Its, It’s) a shame (her, hers) car wouldn’t run.

7. ______(She, Her) and (they, them) took off for Mexico.

8. ______This is the way that (he, him) told it to (he, him) and (I and me).

Think and Write: How can you tell the difference between subject, object, possessive, and reflexive pronouns?

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Pronoun Antecedents

Directions: Circle the antecedent for the underlined pronoun in each sentence. If the pronoun has no antecedent, write “no antecedent”; if the antecedent is not clear, write “not clear”.

Example: The boy wore his yellow raincoat.

1.______Everyone at the party enjoyed her evening.

2.______The car has a leak in its transmission.

3.______Wearing a hat when it snows is wise.

4.______More and more physicians are beginning to look not just for illnesses but also for patients’ habits with long-term health implications. This is definite progress.

Think and Write: How can you identify pronoun antecedents?

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Subject and Object Pronouns

This post card has FIVE incorrect pronouns. Fix the five errors.

Rules:

i Use subject pronouns as the subject of a sentence and after state-of-being verbs.

i Use object pronouns after action verbs and as the object of the preposition.

Demonstrative, Indefinite, and Interrogative Pronouns (or Adjectives)

Directions: Read each sentence. Identify underlined word. Circle your answer.

1. Those are the pictures of my cats

a) demonstrative pronoun c) indefinite pronoun