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1 RULES FOR FINDING AND FIXING PRONOUN AGREEMENT ERRORS Understand the problem . Whenever you use a personal pronoun like she, it, or they, you first have to have an antecedent, the word that the pronoun is replacing. Read this sentence: G u s t a v o s l o w e d t o t h e s p e e d l i m i t w h e n he s a w t h e p o l i c e c r u i s e r i n t h e r e a r v i e w m i r r o r . The pronoun he replaces Gustavo. Pronouns like he will keep you from repeating Gustavo, Gustavo, Gustavo over and over again. The pronoun must agree with its antecedent. To navigate this agreement successfully, you will need to know these singular and plural pronoun forms: SI N G U L A R PL U R A L he, she, it him, her, it his, her, hers, its himself, herself, itself they them their, theirs themselves The general rule for pronoun agreement is straightforward: A singular antecedent requires a singular pronoun; a plural antecedent needs a plural pronoun.

1 RULES FOR FINDING AND FIXING PRONOUN AGREEMENT ERRORS Understand the problem. Whenever you use a personal pronoun like she, it, or they, you first have to have an antecedent, the word that the pronoun is replacing.

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