Grades 5-6 - Pronouns

Name: _____________________________ Date: ___________

 

 

Use pronouns correctly in a story. With a partner, write a story or series of related sentences using ten of the pronouns in the chart above, including at least one reflexive and one intensive pronoun. Read your story or sentences aloud to another pair. Have them check the sentences for correct usage.

 

Pronouns are words that take the place of nouns in sentences. 

 

Example: Mark will take Mark’s little brother with Mark. 

You can substitute pronouns to make the sentence clearer:  

Mark will take his little brother with him. 

 

See the chart below containing singular and plural nominative, objective, possessive, and reflexive personal pronouns. Review the examples of special pronouns and the rules of agreement that follow the chart.

Singular  

I, me, my, mine you, your, yours he, she, it, him, her, hers,  

myself  yourself   its, himself, herself, itself 

 

we, us, our  you, your, yours,   they, them, their, theirs

ours, ourselves yourselves   themselves

 

 

REFLEXIVE AND INTENSIVE PRONOUNS

Examples: I will do it myself. 

Arnie was able to build the model himself, and the teacher was impressed.

INCORRECT: Ben and myself will do the project together.

CORRECT: Ben and I will do the project together.

INCORRECT: The program will be introduced by Andrea and myself.

CORRECT: The program will be introduced by Andrea and me.

 

I myself will have the first slice of cake. 

The queen herself made an appearance at the ball. 

Name: __________________________________________ Date: ___________

 

 

 

 

 

Pronouns are words that take the place of nouns in sentences. 

The antecedent is the word to which a pronoun refers. See the chart of personal and indefinite pronouns below.

Singular  

I, me, my, mine you, your, yours he, she, it 

myself   yourself   him, his, her, hers, its 

 

we, us, our you, your, yours,   they, them, their, theirs

ours, ourselves yourselves   themselves

 

Singular: another, anybody, anyone, anything, each, either, everybody, everyone, everything, little, much, neither, nobody, no one, nothing, one, other, somebody, someone, something 

Plural: both, few, many, others, several 

Singular or Plural: all, any, more, most, none, some 

 

Pronouns must agree with their antecedents in gender and number, and must also agree with verbs. See the examples below.

INCORRECT: Everyone bring their books to class.

CORRECT: Everyone brings his or her book to class. 

Everyone is a singular pronoun and must have a singular verb and a singular pronoun to agree with it.

Usually, a prepositional phrase does not affect agreement.

Example: The book about sports is on the shelf.

Here book is the singular subject that must agree with the verb is. The prepositional phrase about sports only modifies book (telling which book) and does not affect subject-verb agreement.

However, because some pronouns are either singular or plural, the prepositional phrase can provide information. 

all of it some of it most of it any of it

all of them some of them most of them any of them

Name: __________________________________________ Date: ___________

1. Everybody wants to speak about (their, his or her) own project at the fair.

2. Colleen and (I, me) want to show our artwork at the fair, too.

3. Each project has (their, its) own point of view about history.

4. Most of the projects (has, have) never been exhibited before. 

5. Anybody from the class (is, are) allowed to go and spend the day.

 

6. Everyone in the class (are, is) participating in the fair.

7. Some of them (has, have) more than one event to attend.

8. Most of the projects (is, are) on display for the whole week.

9. My classmates and teacher (feel, feels) every excited to be part of it.

10. Each of the participants (earns, earn) a certificate.