Unit 1: Grammar Practice: Pronouns

Question 1

What is a case?

Answer 1

Case is the form of a noun or a pronoun that indicates its use in a sentence

Question 2

What are the 3 cases?

Answer 2

Nominative case
Objective case
Possessive case

Question 3

What is the definition of nominative case?

Answer 3

The nominative case is used for subjects and predict nominatives.

The personal pronouns in the nominative, or subjective, case are I, YOU, HE, SHE, IT, WE, and THEY

Question 4

What is an appositive?

Answer 4

An appositive is a word that comes right after the pronoun and identifies or renames it.

An appositive, however, will never affect the case of a pronoun. In fact, you can check whether you have used the correct pronoun by dropping the appositive.

Question 5

Find the appositive.

1. We siblings worked together to cook dinner.
2. I, the assistant chef, worked hard.

Answer 5

1. Siblings

2. The assistant chef

Question 6

What is a predicate nominative?

Answer 6

A predicate nominative is a noun or a pronoun that follows a linking verb and identifies or renames the subject. Pronouns used as predicate nominatives are always in the nominative case.

Question 7

Find the predicate nominative and the linking verb.

1. The best speller on the team was he.
2. The finalists were she and Greg

Answer 7

1. Linking verb: speller
   Predicate nominative: he
2. Linking verb: finalists
   Predicate nominative: she and Greg

Question 8

What is the definition of objective case?

Answer 8

The objective case is used for direct objects, and objects of a preposition. Object pronouns are used as direct objects, indirect objects, and objects of prepositions.

Question 9

Identifies the direct object and the indirect object (if it has one).

1. Carlos will join us when he returns.
2. Dr. Garcia showed him X-rays if his teeth.

Answer 9

1. Us (direct object)

2. X-rays (indirect); him (indirect)

Question 10

What is the definition of a possessive case?

Answer 10

The possessive case is used to show ownership or possession.

The personal pronouns in the possessive case are MY, MINE, YOUR, YOURS, HIS, HER, HERS, ITS, OUR, OURS, THEIR, and THEIRS.

Question 11

Find the possessive case.

1. Kylie shared her latest set of poems with Alyssa.
2. Ryan takes his writing seriously.
3. This pencil could be mine.

Answer 11

1. Her
2. His
3. Mine

Question 12

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Answer 12

Personal possessive pronouns are not written with an apostrophe. Sometimes an apostrophe is incorrectly included because possessive nouns are written with an apostrophe.

Possessive NOUN:
ALYSSA’S journal is on the table.

Possessive PRONOUN:
The notebook is HERS. (not her’s)