Dent essay

Dents Essay
Stewart Pidd hates English the following information about Pronouns: Pronouns function as replacement words for long noun phrases and nouns. Three common types of pronouns give writers trouble are pronouns, personal, and possessive. Pronouns have different functions: Pronouns that do not refer to an object or a particular person are indefinite pronouns; possessive pronouns show ownership; personal pronouns replace an object or a verb. Pronouns can prevent unnecessary repetition. An antecedent is the noun that comes before or after the pronouns that reference it (Politt and Baker 70-83). Faulty pronoun agreement is a common writing error. In “Go big or go home”, Jimmy Dent fails to make his pronouns agree with their antecedents.
Dent makes a pronoun/antecedent agreement error. He writes, “Hey, Stewie, when a skater dude goes to Ludville Pipe they need to go big or go home. So you better go home ha”. The singular antecedent does not agree with the plural pronoun “they”. To fix the error Dent needs to change the plural pronoun “they” to the singular pronoun “he”. The revised sentence will read, “Hey, Stewie, when a skater dude goes to Ludville Pipe he needs to go big or go home.”
Dent makes another pronoun/antecedent error. He writes, nobody wants to put their relatives in a home. The singular antecedent “nobody” does not agree with the plural possessive pronoun “their”. To fix the error Dent needs to replace the indefinite pronoun “nobody” with the pronoun like “in laws”. The revised sentence will read, nobody like putting their in laws in a home.
Dent makes a collective pronoun/ plural pronoun error. He writes, “the Dent clan will unite to make their relatives like chewed-up gym. The singular antecedent “clan” does not agree with the plural possessive pronoun “their”. The single pronoun clan can function all by itself. To fix this error Dent needs to replace the possessive pronoun “their” with a single possessive pronoun. The revised sentence will read, “on a good day The Dent clan will unite to make their relatives feel liked chewed up gym.
Untrained writers and speakers who make pronoun agreement errors should consider the wise word of Thomas Browne: “There is good music wherever there is harmony, order or Proportion. Good writing is like good music. Having pronoun agreement brings harmony, order and proportion to ones writing. Having harmony, order or proportion creates good writing.



Work cited
Title: Stewart Pidd Hates English
Authors: Politt, Gary and Baker, Craig
Publisher: Attack Text Publishing
City of Publication: Fullerton, ca
Year Published: 2009