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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.
4 Everyone on the planet deserves clean water to quench their his thirst. Can you believe it? Somebody left their her dog in a hot car with the windows rolled up! Nothing is in their its place after the violent shaking from the earthquake. Because this group of indefinite pronouns is singular, your choice of singular
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