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Target 2: Pronouns and Determiners

Part One: Pronouns
Look at the sentence below:

It was Sally’s birthday and Sally’s sister was buying Sally the DVD player
that Sally really wanted.

In this sentence, ‘Sally’ is repeated several times. This sounds much better:

It was Sally’s birthday and her sister was buying her the DVD player that
she really wanted.

The words in italics that have replaced ‘Sally’ are called PRONOUNS. They are
useful because you don’t have to repeat yourself.

Pronouns are words that can be used in place of nouns. Like nouns, they
can be the subject or the object of a sentence and they can be
singular (one) or plural (more than one).

Look at the examples in the tables below:

Pronouns used as the SUBJECT of a sentence
SINGULAR PRONOUNS PLURAL PRONOUNS

I you we you they

he she it

Pronouns used as the OBJECT of a sentence

SINGULAR PRONOUNS PLURAL PRONOUNS

me you us you them
him her it

SUBJECT

Greg talked to Harry. The dog ate the bones. The children thanked Sue.

He talked to him. It ate them. They thanked her.

OBJECT

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