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Other rules to know about pronouns:

#1: POSSESSIVE pronouns before GERUNDS:

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• CORRECT USAGE: Please analyze each:

• He resents your being more popular than he is.• Most of the members paid their dues without my asking them.• They objected to her being given the command position.• What do you think about his buying such an expensive car?• We were all sorry about her losing her dog like that.

• INCORRECT USAGE: CHANGE & EXPLAIN 1. He resents you being more popular than he is. 2. Most of the members paid their dues without me asking them. 3. They objected to she being given the command position.4. What do you think about him buying such an expensive car. 5. We were all grateful for she taking on the responsibility for the party.6. I can understand you not telling them.

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Rule #2: Who or Whom

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#3: Pronouns acting as Appositives:

When a pronoun is acting as an appositive, it takes the case of the noun it is renaming:

Subject:

The teachers who are going, Link, Sulc, and I, will arrive at school at 5am.

Indirect Object:

The students gave the teachers, Link, Sulc, and I, an applause for doing the field trip.

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#4: The pronoun in an incomplete constructionAfter THAN and AS, use the form of construction that would correctly complete the sentence.

EXAMPLES:

I am not sure you are as prepared as ____.

You are more well read than ______.

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#5: Unclear Pronoun Usage:

A pronoun should clearly refer to its antecedent.

AMBIGUOUS reference occurs when the antecedent

is unclear.

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FOR EXAMPLE: Unclear Pro. Reference -Johnston

This is the reason that Romeo climbs up her window.

On many essays this year, I have written "Do not use the word 'this' as a subject - unclear pronoun reference.

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