Understanding Antecedents
Directions:
In the sentences below underline the pronouns and put a line through their
antecedents.
Example:
Andy and Cleste have spent hundreds of hours
restoring their old house.
- Abrasive cleansers clean well, but they are also likely to scratch the
surfaces of pots and pans.
- Nancy says she plans to spend the whole day reorganizing her closets.
- The aim of a home fire extinguisher is to cover a burning object with a
substance that prevents oxygen from reaching it.
- Do teenagers want their parents to understand them?
- Joshua wrote his first autobiography when he was nine years old.
- Several old friends called Keith to congratulate him after his letter was
published in Sunday’s newspaper.
- Claudia uses a rearview mirror clipped onto her bicycle helmet.
- Paul thinks the parrot understands what it says to him.
- Gwendolyn told Dionysios she disapproved of his working.
- Mrs. Wilkowski asked her assistants to present their proposals at the
staff meeting Tuesday.
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