Tham khảo tài liệu 'learning express - writing skills success_06', ngoại ngữ, kỹ năng viết tiếng anh phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | z o z z LU 13 USING PRONOUNS The words of the world want to make sentences. Gaston Bachelard French philosopher 1884-1962 LESSON SUMMARY Pronouns are so often misused in speech that many people don t really know how to avoid pronoun errors in writing. This lesson shows you how to avoid the most common ones. A pronoun is a word used in place of a noun. Misused pronouns call attention to themselves and detract from the message of a piece of writing. This lesson explains the basic principles of pronoun use and highlights the most common pronoun problems agreement case noun-pronoun pairs incomplete constructions ambiguous pronoun references and reflexive pronouns. Pronouns and Antecedents The noun represented by a pronoun is called its antecedent. The prefix ante- means to come before. Usually the antecedent comes before the pronoun in a sentence. In the following examples the pronouns are italicized and the antecedents the words they represent are underlined. The government workers received their paychecks. Jane thought she saw the missing boy and reported him to the police. The shift supervisor hates these accidents because he thinks they can be easily avoided. 105 USING PRONOUNS A pronoun must match the number of its antecedent. In other words if the antecedent is singular the pronoun must also be singular. If the antecedent is plural the pronoun must also be plural. Few people make mistakes when matching a pronoun with a noun antecedent. However sometimes a pronoun is the antecedent for another pronoun. Indefinite pronoun antecedents frequently result in a number mismatch between pronoun and antecedent. In Lesson 12 you learned about singular pronouns. Here is the list again. each anyone nobody either everybody one neither everyone somebody anybody no one someone A pronoun with one of the words from this list as its antecedent must be singular. Each singular of the men brought his singular favorite snack to the picnic. Everyone singular who wants to be in the .
