Pronouns and determiners

I can spot pronouns and determiners, and choose a or an.

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Years 3 to 6 · English

Kofi likes pizza. Kofi eats pizza every Friday.
Kofi is written twice. It sounds clumsy.
A pronoun can stand in for the second Kofi.
Picture: The sentence "Kofi likes pizza. Kofi eats pizza every Friday.", with "Kofi" and "Kofi" underlined.
Let's swap the second Kofi for He.
Kofi likes pizza. He eats pizza every Friday.
He is a pronoun. It stands in for Kofi, so we do not say the name twice.
Picture: The sentence "Kofi likes pizza. He eats pizza every Friday.", with "Kofi" changed to "He".
Listen to this short story about Zara and a dog.
She stands in for Zara. It stands in for the dog. They stands in for Zara and the dog together.
She, it and they are personal pronouns.
We know who she is, because Zara was named first. Name first, then the pronoun.
Picture: A short text called "The walk" with a picture of a dog: "Zara has a dog. She walks it every day. They love the park." "She", "it" and "They" are underlined.
Your turn: Which word in this sentence is a pronoun?
Picture: The sentence "Priya kicked the ball and it flew over the fence."
Choose one:
- Priya
- it
- fence
Answer
The answer: it
It is the pronoun. It stands in for the ball.
Picture: The sentence "Priya kicked the ball and it flew over the fence.", with "it" labelled pronoun.

pronoun:: A word that stands in for a noun, like she, it or they.
possessive pronoun:: A pronoun that shows who owns something, like mine or hers.
determiner:: A little word that comes just before a noun, like the, a, an or this.
vowel sound:: A sound like the start of apple, egg, igloo, orange or umbrella.

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