{"id":16675,"date":"2017-12-15T21:34:58","date_gmt":"2017-12-15T21:34:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy?page_id=16675"},"modified":"2025-11-28T11:19:29","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T17:19:29","slug":"pronouns","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy\/pronouns\/","title":{"rendered":"Pronouns"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>What is a Pronoun?<\/h1>\n<div class=\"lyte-wrapper fourthree\" title=\"Pronouns\" style=\"width:420px;max-width:100%;margin:5px auto;\"><div class=\"lyMe\" id=\"WYL_DFrAxCFWHVQ\"><div id=\"lyte_DFrAxCFWHVQ\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-youtube-lyte\/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FDFrAxCFWHVQ%2Fhqdefault.jpg\" class=\"pL\"><div class=\"tC\"><div class=\"tT\">Pronouns<\/div><\/div><div class=\"play\"><\/div><div class=\"ctrl\"><div class=\"Lctrl\"><\/div><div class=\"Rctrl\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><noscript><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/DFrAxCFWHVQ\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-youtube-lyte\/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FDFrAxCFWHVQ%2F0.jpg\" alt=\"Pronouns\" width=\"420\" height=\"295\" \/><br \/>Watch this video on YouTube<\/a><\/noscript><\/div><\/div><div class=\"lL\" style=\"max-width:100%;width:420px;margin:5px auto;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"accordion\"><input id=\"transcript\" type=\"checkbox\" class=\"spoiler_button\" \/><label for=\"transcript\">Transcript<\/label>\n<div class=\"spoiler\" id=\"transcript-spoiler\">\n<p>Pronouns replace nouns. This sentence says, &#8220;Dad is at his office.&#8221; We could also say that &#8220;he&#8221; is at his office. These two sentences have the same meaning, because &#8220;he&#8221; replaces &#8220;dad&#8221;, but they&#8217;re both talking about the same person. <b>When dealing with pronouns, you have something called an antecedent.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>An antecedent is the noun that a pronoun replaces. Here, &#8220;dad&#8221; is the antecedent, because later we have this pronoun &#8220;he&#8221;, which replaces &#8220;dad&#8221;. Now, there are many pronouns. I want to go ahead and list most of those: I, You, He, She, It, We, They, Me, You, Him, Her, It, Us, Them, My, Your, His, Her, Its, Our, Their, Mine, Yours, His, Hers, Ours, Theirs, Myself, Herself, Ourselves, and Himself. Those are a list of pronouns you&#8217;re probably pretty familiar with. Notice here that &#8220;his&#8221; is also a pronoun. &#8220;Dad&#8221; is the antecedent for both &#8220;his&#8221; and &#8220;he&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><b>Why do we use antecedents?<\/b> Why don&#8217;t we just always use that noun? Well, take a look at this example: &#8220;Tom plays soccer. Tom is very athletic.&#8221; It&#8217;s kind of redundant, or annoying, to say &#8220;Tom&#8221; every time. Instead, we can replace &#8220;Tom&#8221;, which is now an antecedent for &#8220;he&#8221;. &#8220;Tom plays soccer. He is very athletic.&#8221; Because we just mentioned Tom, we know who &#8220;he&#8221; is talking about. Again, you always need an antecedent, because if we said, &#8220;He plays soccer. He is very athletic,&#8221; we don&#8217;t know who &#8220;he&#8221; is. You need an antecedent. You need that noun first, and then from there, you can use pronouns. As soon as you talk about someone else, as soon as you use a new noun, you need to use that noun again before you use a pronoun.<\/p>\n<p>We could say, &#8220;Tom plays soccer. He is very athletic. Sam plays soccer, too.&#8221; Now, if we were to say, &#8220;He likes basketball,&#8221; then who would &#8220;he&#8221; stand for? &#8220;He&#8221; right here is a pronoun, so what is the antecedent? Are we talking about Sam or are we talking about Tom? Most likely, people are going to think you&#8217;re talking about Sam, because that&#8217;s the last noun you used. If you were talking about Tom, then you&#8217;d need to actually use his name right here. Pronouns only work as long as there is only one noun in the picture. A soon as you use a new noun, you need to use that old noun again before you can use an antecedent.<\/p>\n<p>Look at this sentence: &#8220;People should wash its cars.&#8221; You want to make sure your pronouns agree with your noun. You want to make sure they agree with the antecedent. Here, &#8220;people&#8221; was the antecedent and &#8220;its&#8221; is the pronoun, but they chose the wrong pronoun here. This should say &#8220;their&#8221; cars, because when we use the word &#8220;its&#8221;, that&#8217;s a singular form. It&#8217;s like they&#8217;re referring to one person, but here, since we&#8217;re talking about people, we&#8217;re talking about lots of people, we need to use the pronoun &#8220;their&#8221;, because that&#8217;s plural. It refers to more than one person. 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