Sample Handmade Responses to Hale’s Sin and Syntax,

Chapter 2: Pronounswith corresponding citations from the chapter

Angelo State UniversityEnglish 4361: English GrammarDr. Laurence MusgroveDepartment of English and Modern LanguagesJanuary 22, 2013

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“Unlike nouns, a class of words that is forever morphing and mutating, the list of pronouns is finite and predictable, subdividing neatly and changed only slightly since the days of Shakespeare” (32).

“Unlike nouns, a class of words that is forever morphing and mutating, the list of pronouns is finite and predictable, subdividing neatly and changed only slightly since the days of Shakespeare” (32).

“Unlike nouns, a class of words that is forever morphing and mutating, the list of pronouns is finite and predictable, subdividing neatly and changed only slightly since the days of Shakespeare” (32).

“Unlike nouns, a class of words that is forever morphing and mutating, the list of pronouns is finite and predictable, subdividing neatly and changed only slightly since the days of Shakespeare” (32).

“Pronouns are proxies for nouns. They stand in willingly when nouns don’t want to hang around sounding repetitive” (32).

“Pronouns are proxies for nouns. They stand in willingly when nouns don’t want to hang around sounding repetitive” (32).

“Pronouns are proxies for nouns. They stand in willingly when nouns don’t want to hang around sounding repetitive” (32).

“Expletive pronouns (it, there) are less sexy than they sound, stepping into a sentence as subject when the juice of the sentence lurks in the predicate..” (33).

“’Jim and myself, however, were holding out for June’ is hardly a studly sentence; June would prefer ‘Jim and I’” (34).

“Possessive pronouns are all apostrophe-less: my, your, his, her, its. Who’s and it’s are contractions of who is and it is. Learn this or die” (52).

“Your biggest problems with pronouns will come if you lose sight of the antecedent: when a pronoun drifts away from its antecedent, the entire meaning gets lost at sea” (44).

“Your biggest problems with pronouns will come if you lose sight of the antecedent: when a pronoun drifts away from its antecedent, the entire meaning gets lost at sea” (44).

“Your biggest problems with pronouns will come if you lose sight of the antecedent: when a pronoun drifts away from its antecedent, the entire meaning gets lost at sea” (44).

“Your biggest problems with pronouns will come if you lose sight of the antecedent: when a pronoun drifts away from its antecedent, the entire meaning gets lost at sea” (44).