Use personal and possessive pronouns correctly
Exercise
Difficulty 2
~2 min
eng.g1.s.ex_43
Pronoun Substitute
Prompt
Replace the repeated noun with a pronoun: 'Sam went to the park. Sam played on the slide. Sam laughed.'
M-1-S-EX-43
Chart
Physical / non-image
Personal pronouns reference card. Three columns: SINGULAR (I/me/my, you/your, he/him/his, she/her/her, it/it/its), PLURAL (we/us/our, you/your, they/them/their). Each pronoun on a colored tile to support the color-coded part-of-speech system.
How it's presented
mode
text
Answer criteria
type
exact string
value
Sam went to the park. He played on the slide. He laughed.
allow variant
- Sam went to the park. He played on the slide and he laughed.
- Sam went to the park. He played on the slide. He laughed.
Hints
- After we name Sam once, we can use HE.
- Sam = boy = HE; Maya = girl = SHE; Sam and Maya = THEY.
Misconceptions to watch
- Replaces every Sam (over-pronoun-ing — leaves no subject named)
- Wrong pronoun (SHE for Sam)