Snakes are dangerous if they bite.
They is a pronoun. Snakes is an antecedent. The antecedent is the word that the pronoun is about.
A pronoun must always agree with its antecedent:
Masculine - James cleaned his car.
Feminine - Susan took her dog for a walk.
Neutral - The clouds have changed their direction.
Singular - The student carried his book.
Plural - The students carried their books.
Now choose the pronoun which agrees with the antecedent.
Link: What are extreme adjectives
- 1 - Tom and Bob raced ___ bikes.
- 2 - The players took ___ boots to the game.
- 3 - After taking the test, Lisa said that __ was difficult.
- 4 - The mother bear took ___ babies to the river.
- 5 - The teacher marked the tests and returned ___ back.
- 6 - A student in that girls' school must wear ___ uniform every day.
- 2 - The players took ___ boots to the game.













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it was easy! ThX
it was easy!
ThX
Antecedent
Without mistakes. Quite easy. New linguistics' term!!!
What is an antecedent ?
This lesson was very easy and helpful.
Thank you.
Greetings
I have made one mistake. But
I have made one mistake.
But this mistake was made throught lack of attention.
His, her, their
Hello! I think that HIS, HER and THEIR in the examples given are possessive adjectives or determiners, but not pronouns. They are all followed by a noun, so they cannnot be considered pronouns.
In the following sentence, though, THEIRS is a pronoun.
- I like your books, but not theirs. (=their books)
What do you think?
Vito
A Difficult Term
Such a difficult term 'antecedent', but rather easy task!!!


But I made a mistake with mother-bear.
Thank you for the Lesson!
If a bear is 'it', like any
If a bear is 'it', like any other animal, why bear's baby is her baby but not its baby?
RE: mother bear
You are right that animals are usually referred to as "it", however the sentence contains extra information, "mother bear". We can now refer use a female pronoun. It is acceptable to use "it", but better to use "she".
Thanks,
Chris
thank you
thank you
It was easy! Without any
It was easy! Without any mistakes.
I'm proud of myself!
Thanks a lot!
Quite easy.without any
Quite easy.without any mistakes.i will submit your website for other tests