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The Super-Mega-Pronoun-Agreement Lesson of Awesomeness
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Nobody knows that eating chocolate-broccoli muffins is a good way to provide their bodies with vitamin C.
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Nobody knows that eating dirt muffins is a good way to provide their bodies with vitamins and minerals.
Can you spot the pronouns?
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Nobody knows that eating dirt muffins is a good way to provide their bodies with vitamins and minerals.
Here is a hint.
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Nobody knows that eating dirt muffins is a good way to provide their bodies with vitamins and minerals. Ok, that was more than a hint. Both of these are pronouns: (nobody=indefinite, their=possessive).
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Nobody knows that eating dirt muffins is a good way to provide their bodies with vitamins and minerals.
Now. We must decide whether the pronouns agree.
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Nobody knows that eating dirt muffins is a good way to provide their bodies with vitamins and minerals.
What do you think?
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Nobody knows that eating dirt muffins is a good way to provide their bodies with vitamins and minerals.
If you said “no,” then you are absolutely correct.
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Nobody knows that eating dirt muffins is a good way to provide their bodies with vitamins and minerals.
Nobody means “not one person” and is a singular pronoun.
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Nobody knows that eating dirt muffins is a good way to provide their bodies with vitamins and minerals.
Their is a possessive pronoun associated with a plural antecedent.
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Nobody knows that eating dirt muffins is a good way to provide their bodies with vitamins and minerals.
The correct way (even though it sounds weird): Nobody knows that eating dirt muffins is a good way to provide his or her body with vitamins and minerals.
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Let’s try another.
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The catering committee received compliments for their squid-eye stew.
Any pronouns?
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The catering committee received compliments for their squid-eye stew.
You’re right. The possessive pronoun “their” makes another appearance.
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The catering committee received compliments for their squid-eye stew.
But, does it work here?
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The catering committee received compliments for their squid-eye stew.
Right again! The possessive pronoun “their” is only for a plural antecedent. The catering committee is a singular noun.
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The catering committee received compliments for their squid-eye stew.
The sentence should read: The catering committee received compliments for its squid-eye stew.
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One last example.
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The cricket and the frog outside the boy’s window chirped so loud they kept him awake all night.
Let’s cut to the chase. The pronoun here is “they.”
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The cricket and the frog outside the boy’s window chirped so loud they kept him awake all night.
Does it work? What is the antecedent?
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The cricket and the frog outside the boy’s window chirped so loud they kept him awake all night.
Yup. It’s “the cricket and the frog,” which, together make a compound subject (by default plural). So, “they” is correct.
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The end