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Mastering Pronouns for Error-Free Writing

Learn about personal and demonstrative pronouns, practice exercises on pronoun errors, and improve your TOEFL writing skills. Enhance your understanding of pronoun forms and avoid common mistakes. Become confident in using pronouns effectively in your writing.

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Mastering Pronouns for Error-Free Writing

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  1. Pronouns Tuesday, 4 September 07 eko@stikom.edu

  2. Personal (indicates specific person, number, gender, and case)

  3. demonstrative • It points to and identifies noun/pronoun • Forms:  this (sing, nearby)  that (sing, farther away)  these (plural, nearby)  those (plural, farther away)

  4. Relative • Relative pronouns introduce one type of subordinate clause called a relative clause (which "relates" to the primary clause). These pronouns have various forms which depend on their role within the clause or according to their case. • FORMS: subject (who, which, that), object (whom, which, that), possessivepersonal who whom whose non-personal which whose that • Examples: I went to see the singer who was in town. I read the book which the professor recommended to me.

  5. Exercise:Each of the sentences contain personal pronoun. Circle the pronoun. Then indicate if the sentences are correct (C) or incorrect (I) • Her and Bob came over to visit me. • He opened the refrigerator and took some food from it • She lent it to you and I • My desk is located near hers • Theirs suggestion was unrealistic • I like his ideas and hers • If my friend calls, please tell them that I will return the call. • The girls ran too fast, and she fell down • In the autumn, the tree lost its leaves. • The travelers lost their ways in the storm • The boy got the box and he opened it carefully • The woman left their earrings at home, so she wasn’t wearing them

  6. Facts of pronoun errors in TOEFL • Errors in pronoun agreement (pronoun referent)  a pronoun must agree with personal pronoun to which it refers • Errors in pronoun form and type the misplaced function of personal pronoun • Incorrect inclusion of pronoun  unnecessary use of pronoun  redundancy Please do the following exercise !!! 

  7. Errors in pronoun agreement  • Jackrabbits have powerful rear legs that enable it to leap A B C long distances. D • The best way for children to learn science is for them A B to perform experiments himself C D • Trademarks enable a company to distinguish its A B products form these of another company. C D

  8. Errors in pronoun form and type  • Heman Melville gathered material for him novels, A B including Moby Dick, during his year at sea C D • As larvae, barnacle are free-swimming, but as adults A B they attach them to stones, docks, and hulls of ship C D • A barometer is a device it is used to measure A B C atmospheric pressure. D

  9. Incorrect inclusion of pronoun  • Black Island in Long Island Sound it issurrounded by A B C cold, dangerous waters. D • Dutch elm disease which it iscaused by a fungus A B can destroy a tree within four weeks C D • Certain types of turtles that may live as long as 100 A B C years. D

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