Understanding Antecedents
This worksheet helps fifth-grade students understand and identify antecedents in sentences, focusing on their relationship with pronouns.
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Understanding Antecedents
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An antecedent is the noun or noun phrase that a pronoun refers to. Read each section carefully and follow the instructions to identify antecedents and pronouns.
Read each sentence. Underline the pronoun and then write its antecedent on the blank line.
1. Sarah loves to read; she visits the library every week.
Antecedent:
2. The dog wagged its tail when it saw its owner.
Antecedent:
3. My grandparents are coming to visit, and they will stay for a week.
Antecedent:
4. The students finished their homework before they went outside to play.
Antecedent:
Read each sentence and choose the word that is the antecedent for the bolded pronoun.
5. The tall tree lost **its** leaves in the autumn.
leaves
tree
autumn
tall
6. My brother loves to play soccer; **he** practices every day.
practices
soccer
brother
day
Write two sentences. In each sentence, use a pronoun and clearly show its antecedent.
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Read each statement and circle True or False.
9. A pronoun always comes before its antecedent in a sentence.
True
False
10. The word 'it' can be a pronoun.
True
False