Please Help with these pronoun questions.

Question

What are the nouns in the following sentence: "Her computer was repaired by the technician on Tuesday."

Rewrite the following sentence correctly by replacing one proper noun with a PRONOUN. "The teacher helped Michael with Michael's Independent Reading script."

In the sentence: "Chloe loves her new Chromebook."; identify which pair of words is the PRONOUN & its ANTECEDENT

Which sentence uses a REFLEXIVE PRONOUN correctly?

Vi pours herself a cup of tea each morning.

Mrs. Harding said, "You need to give myself some time to look at your work."

Please Help! I don't understand!!

Answer 1

Hi Shubhita,

The answers to these questions should be as follows:

-"Her computer was repaired by the technician on Tuesday."

The nouns in this sentence are computer, technician and Tuesday.

-"The teacher helped Michael with Michael's Independent Reading script."

In this sentence, the proper noun Michael can be replaced by the pronoun "his" to avoid repetitions. So, we will have ""The teacher helped Michael with his Independent Reading script."

-In the sentence: "Chloe loves her new Chromebook." the pronoun is "his", and its antecedent is Chloe. An antecedent means the noun a pronoun refers to.

-Vi pours herself a cup of tea each morning.

Mrs. Harding said, "You need to give myself some time to look at your work."

The first sentence uses the Reflexive correctly. In the second sentence the reflexive "myself" needs to be replaced by "me" because using the reflexive in this case is meaningless.

Let me know if you have any questions. Thanks.