Essay 2--Cyber-Post
After your self-eval, post Essay 2 here. Homework is to bring in 5-10 essay questions re: Holler Chapters 2-3.
We will answer them in our literature circle discussions tomorrow.
After your self-eval, post Essay 2 here. Homework is to bring in 5-10 essay questions re: Holler Chapters 2-3.
We will answer them in our literature circle discussions tomorrow.
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Bettie Nguyen (Tram Nguyen)
Professor Sabir
English 1A
21 September 2009
Jimmy’s Problematic Pronouns
Stewart Pidd Hates English contains the following information about pronouns: Pronouns function as replacement words for noun phrases and nouns. Three common types of pronouns that give writers trouble are personal, possessive, and indefinite. Pronouns have different functions: pronouns that do not refer to an object or a particular person are indefinite pronouns; possessive pronouns show possession; personal pronouns replace an object or a person. Pronouns can prevent unnecessary repetition. An antecedent is the noun that comes before or after the pronoun(s) that reference it (Pollitt and Baker 74-81). 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: “Hey, Stewie, when a skater dude goes to Ludville Pipe, they need to go big or go home” (1). The singular antecedent “skater dude” does not agree with the plural pronoun “they.” To fix the sentence, Dent needs to replace the singular antecedent “skater dude” with a plural antecedent. The revised sentence will read, “Hey, Stewie, when skaters go to Ludville Pipe, they need to go big or go home.”
Dent makes a pronoun/antecedent error with an indefinite pronoun. He states, “Nobody wants to put their relatives in a home” (2). The singular antecedent “nobody” does not agree with the plural possessive pronoun “their.” To fix the sentence, Dent needs to replace the indefinite pronoun with a plural noun. Dent is Granny Beanbarf’s son-in-law. The revised sentence will read, “Son-in-laws do not want to put their relatives in a home.”
Dent makes a pronoun/antecedent agreement error using a collective noun. Dent writes, “On a good day, the Dent clan will unite to make their relatives feel like chewed-up gum” (2). The singular antecedent “clan” does not agree with the plural possessive pronoun “their.” The collective noun “clan” is singular because the group functions as a unit. Dent needs to replace the plural pronoun “their” with the singular pronoun “its.” The revised sentence will read, “On a good day, the Dent clan will unite to make its relatives feel like chewed-up gum.”
Untrained writers and speakers who make pronoun agreement errors should consider the wise words of Thomas Browne: “There is music wherever there is harmony, order or proportion.” Good writing is like good music. Having pronoun agreement brings good writing. Having harmony, order or proportion creates good music.
Works Cited:
Browne, Thomas. Attackthetext.com. 21 Sept. 2009. http://attackthetext.com.
Dent, Jimmy. “Go Big or Go Home.” 29 Feb. 2008.
Pollitt, Gary, and Craig Baker. Stewart Pidd Hates English. Fullerton, CA: Attack Text
Publishing, 2008.
Katherine Atkinson
Professor Sabir
English 1A
17 September 2009
Jimmy’s Pronoun Problems
Stewart Pidd Hates English contains the following information about pronouns: Pronouns function as replacement words for noun phrases and nouns. Three common types of pronouns that give writers trouble are indefinite, possessive, and personal. Pronouns have different functions: pronouns that that do not refer to an object or are particular person are indefinite pronouns; possessive pronouns show possession; personal pronouns replace an object or a thing. Pronouns can prevent unnecessary repetition. An antecedent is the noun that comes before or after the pronoun(s) that reference it (Pollitt 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 his first pronoun/antecedent agreement error in the opening paragraph. He states, “Tessy and I moved into her and my beachfront house on Philistine Avenue” (1). The plural antecedent “Tessy and I” does not agree with the singular possessive pronouns “hers and my.” To fix the sentence, Dent needs to replace the singular possessive pronouns “her and my” with a plural pronoun. The revised sentence will read, “Aunt Tessy and I moved into our beachfront house on Philistine Avenue.”
Dent makes his second pronoun/antecedent error in the second paragraph. He tells his nephew Stewart, “Hey, Stewie, when a skater dude goes to Ludville Pipe, they need to go big or go home” (1). The singular antecedent “skater dude” does not agree with the plural personal pronoun “they.” To fix the sentence, Dent needs to replace the plural personal pronoun “they” with a singular personal pronoun. 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 his third pronoun/antecedent error in the first paragraph of the second page. He tells nephew Stewart, “Nobody wants to put their relatives in a home” (2). The singular indefinite antecedent “nobody” does not agree with the plural possessive pronoun “their.” To fix the sentence, Dent needs to replace the plural possessive pronoun “their” with a singular possessive pronoun. The revised sentence will read, “Nobody wants to put his relatives in a home.”
Katherine Atkinson (cont)
Dent makes his fourth and final pronoun/antecedent error in the fifth paragraph of the second page. He writes, “On a good day, the Dent clan will unite to make their relatives feel like chewed up gum” (2). The collective noun “clan” does not agree with the plural possessive pronoun “their,” because the collective noun “clan” is functioning as a single unit. Dent can correct this error by replacing the plural possessive pronoun “their” with a singular possessive pronoun. The revised sentence will read, “On a good day, the Dent clan will unite to make its relatives feel like chewed up gum.”
Untrained writers and speakers who make pronoun agreement errors should consider the wise words of Thomas Browne: “There is music wherever there is harmony, order or proportion.” Good writing is like good music. Having pronoun agreement brings harmony, order, or proportion to one’s writing. Having harmony, order, or proportion, creates music.
Works Cited
Browne, Thomas. Attackthetext.com. 17 Sep. 2009. http://www.attackthetext.com.
Dent, Jimmy “Go Big or Go Home.” 29 Feb. 2009.
Pollitt, Gary, and Craig Baker. Stewart Pidd Hates English. Fullerton, CA: Attack Text Publishing, 2009.
Andrew Yuen
Professor Sabir
English 1A
21 September 2009
Dent's Problematic Pronouns
Stewart Pidd Hates English contains the following information about pronouns: Pronouns function as replacement words for noun phrases and nouns. Three common types of pronouns that give writers trouble are personal, possessive, and indefinite. Pronouns have different functions: pronouns that do not refer to an object or a particular person are indefinite pronouns ; possessive pronouns show possession ; personal pronouns replace an object or a thing. Pronouns can prevent unwanted repetition. An antecedent is the noun that comes before or after the pronouns that reference it (Pollitt and Baker 74-81). 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 his first pronoun/antecedent agreement error in the opening paragraph. He states, "Tessy and I moved into her and my beachfront house on Philistine Avenue" (1). The plural antecedent "Tessy and I" does not agree with the singular possessive pronouns "hers and my." To fix the sentence Dent needs to replace the singular possessive pronouns "her and my" with a plural pronoun. The revised sentence will read, "Aunt Tessy and I moved into our beachfront house on Philistine Avenue."
Dent makes a pronoun/antecedent agreement error:" I was out front working on my old motorcycle and said, "Hey, Stewie, when a skater dude goes to Ludville Pipe, they need to go big or go home." (1). The singular antecedent "dude" does not agree with the plural pronoun "they." To fix the sentence, Dent needs to change the singular antecedent "skater dude" to a plural antecedent. The revised sentence will read, " I was out front working on my old motorcycle and said, "Hey, Stewie, when skater dudes go to Ludville Pipe, they need to go big or go home."
Dent makes a pronoun/antecedent agreement error with an indefinite pronoun. He states, "I yelled, through the rusty spokes of my front rim, "Nobody wants to put their relatives in a home" (2). The plural antecedent "their " does not agree with singular possessive pronoun "nobody." To fix the sentence, Dent needs to replace the singular indefinite pronoun "nobody" with "grandson." The revised sentence will read, "I yelled, through the rusty spokes of my front rim, "No grandson wants to put their relatives in a home."
Dent makes a pronoun/antecedent agreement error using a collective noun. Dent writes, "On a good day, the Dent clan will unite to make their relatives feel like chewed up gum" (2). The singular antecedent "clan" does not agree with the plural possessive pronoun "their." The collective noun "clan" is singular because it functions as a unit. To fix the sentence, Dent needs to replace the plural pronoun "their" with "its." The revised sentence will read, " On a good day, the Dent clan will unite to make its relatives feel like chewed up gum."
Untrained writers and speakers who make pronoun agreement errors should consider the wise words of Thomas Browne: "There is music wherever there is harmony, order or proportion." Good writing is like good music. Having pronoun agreement brings good music to writing. Having harmony, order or proportion creates a sense of unity in one's writing.
Works Cited
Browne, Thomas. attackthetext.com. 20 September 2009. http://attackthetext.com>
Dent, Jimmy. "Go Big or Go Home." 29 Feb. 2008
Pollitt, Gary, and Craig Baker. Stewart Pidd Hates English. Fullerton, CA: Attack Text Publishing, 2008.
Emmy Sanchez
Professor Sabir
English 1A
21 September 2009
Dent's Prison Paper
Stewart Pidd Hates English contains the following information about pronouns: Pronouns function as replacement words for noun phrases and nouns. Three common types of pronouns that give writers trouble are personal, possessive, and indefinite. Pronouns have different functions: pronouns that do not refer to an object or a particular person are indefinite pronouns; possessive pronouns show possession; personal pronouns replace an object or a specific person. Pronouns can prevent unnecessary repetition. An antecedent is the noun that comes before or after the pronoun(s) that reference it (Pollitt and Baker 74-81). 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 his first pronoun/antecedent agreement error in the opening paragraph. He states, "Tessy and I moved into her and my beachfront house on Philistine Avenue" (1). The plural antecedent "Tessy and I" does not agree with the singular possessive pronouns "hers and my." To fix the sentence Dent needs to replace the singular possessive pronouns "her and my" with a plural pronoun. The revised sentence will read, "Aunt Tessy and I moved into our beachfront house on Philistine Avenue."
Dent makes a pronoun/antecedent agreement error:""Hey, Stewie when a skater dude goes to Ludville Pipe, they need to go big or go home."" (1). The singular antecedent "dude" does not agree with the plural pronoun "they." To fix the sentence, Dent needs to make the singular antecedent "skater dude" agree with the plural pronoun "they". He can do this by making the singular antecedent plural. The revised sentence will read, ""Hey, Stewie, when skater dudes go to Ludville Pipe, they need to go big or go home.""
Dent makes a pronoun/antecedent agreement error with an indefinite pronoun. He states, ""Nobody wants to put their relatives in a home"" (2). The singular antecedent "nobody" does not agree with plural possessive pronoun "their". To fix the sentence, Dent must make the plural pronoun "their" agree with the singular indefinate pronoun "nobody". The revised sentence will read, ""Nobody wants to put his or her relatives in a home."
Dent makes a pronoun/antecedent agreement error using a collective noun. Dent writes, "On a good day, the Dent clan will unite to make their relatives feel like chewed up gum" (2). The singular antecedent "clan" does not agree with the plural possessive pronoun "their." The collective noun "clan" is singular because the group is functioning as a unit. To fix the sentence, Dent needs to replace the plural pronoun "their" with "its." The revised sentence will read, " On a good day, the Dent clan will unite to make its relatives feel like chewed up gum."
Untrained writers and speakers who make pronoun agreement errors should consider the wise words of Thomas Browne: “There is music wherever there is harmony, order or proportion.” Good writing is like good music. Having pronoun agreement brings order to one’s writing. Having harmony, order, or proportion, creates music in writing.
Works Cited
Browne, Thomas. Attackthetext.com.17 Sep. 2009. http://www.attackthetext.com.
Dent, Jimmy “Go Big or Go Home.” 29 Feb. 2009.
Pollitt, Gary, and Craig Baker. Stewart Pidd Hates English. Fullerton, CA: Attack Text Publishing, 2009.
Howard He
Professor Sabir
English 1A
September 20, 2009
Dent the House Thief
Stewart Pidd Hates English contains the following information about pronouns. Pronouns functions as replacement words for noun phrases and nouns. Three common types of pronouns that give writers trouble are personal, possessive, and indefinite pronouns. Pronouns have different functions: pronouns that do not defer to an object or a particular person are indefinite pronouns; possessive pronouns show possession; personal pronouns replace an object or a person. Pronouns can prevent excessive repetition. An antecedent is the noun that comes before or after the pronoun that references it. (Pollitt 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: “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 “Skater dude” does not agree with the plural pronoun “they.” Dent needs to use a plural form of “Skater dude.” The revised sentence will read, “Hey, Stewie, when skaters go to the Ludville pipe, they need to go big or go home, so you better go home. Ha!”
Dent makes a pronoun/antecedent agreement error. Dent writes, “Nobody wants to put their relatives in a home.” The singular antecedent “nobody” does not agree with the plural possessive pronoun “their.” Dent will need to replace “nobody with the plural noun such as “we.” The revised sentence will read, ”we don’t want to put our relatives in a home.”
Dent makes a pronoun/antecedent agreement error. Dent writes, “On a good day, the Dent clan will unite to make their relatives feel like chewed up gum.” The singular antecedent “clan” does not agree with the plural possessive pronoun “their.” The collective noun “clan” is singular because they act as a unit. The collective noun “their” needs to be changes with “its.” The revised sentence will read, “On a good day, the Dent clan will unite to make its relatives feel like chewed up gum.”
Untrained writers and speakers who make pronoun agreement errors should consider the wise words of Thomas Browne: “there is music wherever there is harmony, order or proportion.” Good writing is like good music. Having pronoun agreement makes one’s writing better. Having harmony, order or proportion creates better writing.
Browne, Thomas. Attackthetext.com. September 20, 2009
Dent, Jimmy “Go Big or Go Home.” 29 Feb. 2009
Pollitt, Gary, and Baker, Craig. Stewart Pidd Hates English.
Fullterton, CA: Attack Text Publishing. 2009
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
Anne Hallford
Sabir
English 1A
22 September 2009
Jimmy’s Puzzling Pronouns
Stewart Pidd Hates English contains the following information about pronouns: Pronouns function as re-placement words for noun phrases and nouns. Three common types of pronouns that give writers trouble are personal, possessive, and indefinite. Pro-nouns have different functions: pronouns that do not refer to an object or a particular person are indefinite pronouns; possessive pronouns show possessiveness; personal pronouns replace an object or a person. Pronouns can prevent irrelevant repetition. An antecedent is the noun that comes before or after the pronouns that reference it (Pollitt 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: “I was out front working on my old motorcycle and said, “Hey, Stewie, when a skater dude goes to Ludville Pipe, they need to go big or go home. So you better go home. Ha!”(1). The singular antecedent “skater dude” does not agree with the plural pronoun “they”. The revised sentence will read, “I was out front working on my old motorcycle and said, “Hey Stewie, when a skater dudes go to Ludville Pipe, they need to go big or go home. So you better go home. Ha!”
Dent makes the pronoun/antecedent agreement with an indefinite pronoun. He states “Stewart Pidd!” I yelled, through the rusty spokes of my front rim, “Nobody wants to put their relatives in a home” (2). The singular antecedent “Nobody” does not agree with the plural possessive pronoun “their”. Dent needs to make the singular indefinite pronoun “nobody” plural to fix the sentence. The revised sentence will read: “Stewart Pidd!” I yelled, through the rusty spokes of my front rim, “We didn’t want to put our relative in a home”.
Dent makes a pronoun/antecedent agreement error using a collective noun. He states “On a good day, the Dent clan will unite to make their relatives feel like chewed up gum” (2) The singular antecedent “Dent Clan” does not agree with the plural possessive pronoun “their”. The collective noun “clan” is singular because it refers to a particular person or thing. Dent needs to replace the plural pronoun “their” with the pronoun “it” to fix the sentence. The revised sentence will read “On a good day, the Dent clan will unite to make its relatives feel like chewed up gum.”
Untrained writers and speakers who make pronouns agreement errors should consider the wise words of Thomas Browne: “There is music wherever there is harmony, order or proportion.” Good writing is like good music. Having pronoun agreement in one’s writing brings harmony, order and proportion. Having harmony, order or proportion create a flow of words in the writing.
Works Cited:
Brown, Thomas. Attackthetext.com. 09/21/09
http://attackthetext.com.
Dent, Jimmy “Go Big or Go Home.”
29, Feb 2009.
Pollitt, Gary, and Baker, Craig. Stewart Pidd Hates English
Fullerton. CA: Attack Text Publishing, 2009.
Jimmy’s Problematical Pronouns
Stewart Pidd Hates English contains the following information about pronouns. Pronouns functions as replacement words for noun phrases and nouns. Three common types of pronouns that give writers trouble are personal, possessive, and indefinite pronouns. Pronouns have different functions: pronouns that do not defer to an object or a particular person are indefinite pronouns; possessive pronouns show possession; personal pronouns replace an object or a person. Pronouns can prevent excessive repetition.
An antecedent is the noun that comes before or after the pronoun that references it. (Pollitt 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: “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 “Skater dude” does not agree with the plural pronoun “they.” Dent needs to use a plural form of “Skater dude.” The revised sentence will read, “Hey, Stewie, when skaters go to the Ludville pipe, they need to go big or go home, so you better go home. Ha!”
Dent makes a pronoun/antecedent agreement error.
Dent writes, “Nobody wants to put their relatives in a home.” The singular antecedent “nobody” does not agree with the plural possessive pronoun “their.” Dent will need to replace “nobody with the plural noun such as “we.” The revised sentence will read,”We don’t want to put our relatives in a home.”
Dent makes a pronoun/antecedent agreement error using a collective noun. He states “On a good day, the Dent clan will unite to make their relatives feel like chewed up gum” (2) the singular antecedent “Dent Clan” does not agree with the plural possessive pronoun “their”. The collective noun “clan” is singular because it refers to a particular person or thing. Dent needs to replace the plural pronoun “their” with the pronoun “it” to fix the sentence. The revised sentence will read “On a good day, the Dent clan will unite to make its relatives feel like chewed up gum.”
Untrained writers and speakers who make pronoun agreement errors should consider the wise words of Thomas Browne: “There is music wherever there is harmony, order or proportion.” Good writing is like good music. Having pronoun agreement brings order to one’s writing. Having harmony, order, or proportion, creates music in writing.
Works Cited
Browne, Thomas. Attackthetext.com.17 Sep. 2009. http://www.attackthetext.com.
Dent, Jimmy “Go Big or Go Home.” 29 Feb. 2009.
Pollitt, Gary, and Craig Baker. Stewart Pidd Hates English. Fullerton, CA: Attack Text Publishing, 2009.
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Sha’Quea Pratt
Ms. Sabir
English 1A
22, September 2009
Dent’s Prison Pronouns
Stewart Pidd Hates English contains the following information about pronouns: Pronouns function as replacement words for noun phrases and nouns. Three common types of pronouns that give writers trouble are personal, possessive, and indefinite. Pronouns have different functions: pronouns that do not refer to an object or a particular person ate indefinite pronouns; possessive pronouns show possessive; personal pronouns replace an object or a person. Pronouns can prevent unreasonable repetition. An antecedent is the noun that comes before or after the pronoun(s) that reference it (Pollitt and Baker). Faulty pronoun agreement is a common error. In “Go Big or Go Home,” Jimmy Dent fails to make his pronouns agree with their antecedents.
Dent makes a pronouns/antecedent error: “I was out front working on my old motorcycle and said, ‘Hey, Stewie, when a skater dude goes to Ludville Pipe, they need to go big or go home. Ha!’”(1). The singular antecedent “skater dude” doesn’t agree with the plural pronoun “they”. Dent needs revise the singular antecedent, “skater dude,” so the pronoun will agree with it. The revised sentence will read, “I was out front working on my old motorcycle and said, ‘Hey, Stewie, when skater dudes go to Ludville Pipe, they need to go big or go home. Ha!”
Dent makes a pronoun/ antecedent agreement error. He states, “‘Stewart Pidd!’ I yelled, through the rusty spokes of my front rim, ‘Nobody wants to put their relatives in a home” (2). The singular antecedent “nobody” doesn’t agree with the possessive pronoun “their”. To fix the sentence, Dent needs to either replace the indefinite pronoun, “nobody”, with a plural noun or keep the indefinite pronoun and rephrase the sentence. The revised sentence will read, “Stewart Pidd” I yelled, through the rusty spokes of my front rim, “People don’t want to put their relatives in a home.”
Dent makes a pronoun/antecedent error. Dent writes, “On a good day, the Dent clan will unite to make their relatives feel like chewed-up gum” (2). The singular antecedent “clan” doesn’t agree with the plural possessive pronoun “their”. The collective noun “clan” is singular because the group of words is functioning as a unit. Dent needs to replace the plural pronoun “their” with the singular pronoun “its”. Dent’s revised sentence will read, “On a good day, the Dent clan will unite to make its relatives fell like chewed-up gum.”
Untrained writers and speakers who make pronoun agreement errors should consider the wise words of Thomas Browne: “There is music wherever there is harmony, order or proportion.” Good writing is like good music. Having a pronoun agreement helps the writer avoid unnecessary repetition. Having harmony, order or proportion creates meaning and a great story.
Works Cited
Browne. Thomas. Attackthetext.com. 17 Sept. 2009 http://attackthetext.com.
Dent, Jimmy. “Go Big or Go Home.” 29 Feb. 2009.
Pollitt, Gary, and Craig Baker. Stewart Pidd Hates English. Fullerton, CA: Attack Text Publishing, 2009.
Anaya Odom
Professor Sabir
English 1A
22 September 2009
Jimmy's Pronoun Problems
Stewart Pidd Hates English contains the following
information about pronouns: Pronouns function as reference words for noun phrases and nouns. Three common types of pronouns that give writers trouble are personal, possessive, and indefinite. Pronouns have different functions: pronouns that do not refer to an object or a particular person are indefinite pronouns; possessive pronouns show possession; personal pronouns replace an object or a specific person. Pronouns can prevent excessive repetition. An antecedent is the noun that comes before or after the pronoun(s) that reference it (Pollitt 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 nouns.
Dent makes a pronoun/ antecedent agreement error:
"I was out front working on my old motorcycle and said, "Hey, Stewie, when a skater dude goes to Ludville Pipe, they need to go big or go home. So you better go home. Ha!" (1). the singular antecedent "skater dude" does not agree with the plural pronoun "they". To fix the sentence, Dent needs to replace the plural pronoun "they" with a singular pronoun. The revised sentence will read, "I was out front working on my old motorcycle and said, "Hey, Stewie, when a skater dude goes to Ludville Pipe, he needs to go big or go home. So you better go home. Ha!"
Dent makes a indefinite/plural pronoun error. He states,
"Stewart Pidd!" I yelled, through the rusty spokes of my front rim, "Nobody wants to put their relatives in a home" (2) . The singular antecedent "I" does not agree with the plural possessive pronoun "their." To fix the sentence, Dent needs to replace the singular indefinite pronoun "nobody." The revised sentence will read, "Stewart Pidd!" I yelled, through the rusty spokes of my front rim, "No one wants to put their relatives in a home."
Dent makes a pronoun agreement error using a collective
noun. The singular antecedent "the Dent clan" does not agree with the plural possessive pronoun "their". The collective noun "clan" is singular, because it is as one, a unit. Dent needs to replace the plural pronoun "their" with the singular possessive pronoun "its". The revised sentence will read, "On a good day, the Dent clan will unite to make its relatives feel like chewed-up gum" (2) .
Untrained writers and speakers who make pronoun agreement errors should consider the wise words of Thomas Browne: "There is music wherever there is harmony, order or proportion." Good writing is like good music. Having pronoun agreement brings clarity and clears confusion in ones writing. Having harmony, order or proportion creates a flow in writing.
Debbie Lee
Professor Sabir
English 1A
Dent's Problematic Pronouns
Stewart Pidd Hates English contains the following information about pronouns: Pronouns function as replacement words for noun phrases and nouns. Three common types of pronouns that give writers trouble are personal, possessive, and indefinite. Pronouns have different functions: pronouns that do not refer to an object or a particular person are indefinite pronouns ; possessive pronouns show possession ; personal pronouns replace an object or a thing. Pronouns can prevent unwanted repetition. An antecedent is the noun that comes before or after the pronouns that reference it (Pollitt and Baker 74-81). 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 his first pronoun/antecedent agreement error in Beginning paragraph. He states, "Tessy and I moved into her and my beachfront house on Philistine Avenue" (1). The plural antecedent "Tessy and I" does not agree with the singular possessive pronouns "hers and my." How to fix the sentence Dent needs to replace the singular possessive pronouns "her and my" with a plural pronoun. After doing that, the revised sentence will say, "Aunt Tessy and I moved into our beachfront house on Philistine Avenue."
Dent makes a pronoun/antecedent agreement error:" I was out front working on my old motorcycle and said, "Hey, Stewie, when a skater dude goes to Ludville Pipe, they need to go big or go home." (1). The singular antecedent "dude" does not equal up to the plural pronoun "they." How to fix the sentence, Dent needs to change the singular antecedent "skater dude" to a plural antecedent. After revising it, the sentence will say, "I was out front working on my old motorcycle and said, "Hey, Stewie, when skater dudes go to Ludville Pipe, they need to go big or go home."
Dent makes a pronoun/antecedent agreement error with an indefinite pronoun. He states, "I yelled, through the rusty spokes of my front rim, "Nobody wants to put their relatives in a home" (2). The plural antecedent "their” does not agree with singular possessive pronoun "nobody." How to fix the sentence, Dent needs to replace the singular indefinite pronoun "nobody" with "grandson." After the sentence is revised it will say, "I yelled, through the rusty spokes of my front rim, "No grandson wants to put their relatives in a home."
Dent makes a pronoun/antecedent agreement error using a collective noun. Dent writes, "On a good day, the Dent clan will unite to make their relatives feel like chewed up gum" (2). The singular antecedent "clan" does not agree with the plural possessive pronoun "their." The collective noun "clan" is singular because it functions as a unit. To fix the sentence, Dent needs to replace the plural pronoun "their" with "its." After the sentence is revised it would be like, " On a good day, the Dent clan will unite to make its relatives feel like chewed up gum."
Untrained writers and speakers who make pronoun agreement errors should consider the wise words of Thomas Browne: "There is music wherever there is harmony, order or proportion." This is a great way to gain a good writing structure. Without learning all of these, English writing would be difficult to understand and the sentences would be unclear with many punctuation that needs to be corrected.
Works Cited
Browne, Thomas. attackthetext.com. 20 September 2009. http://attackthetext.com>
Dent, Jimmy. "Go Big or Go Home." 29 Feb. 2008
Pollitt, Gary, and Craig Baker. Stewart Pidd Hates English. Fullerton, CA: Attack Text Publishing, 2008.
Kanisha Hill
Professor Sabir
English 1A
19 September 2009
Stewart Pidd Essay 2
Jimmy’s Promiscuous Pronouns
Stewart Pidd Hates English contains the following information about pronouns: Pronouns
function as re-placable words for noun phases and nouns. Three common types of pronouns that
gives writers trouble are personal, possessive and indefinite. Pronouns have different functions:
pronouns that do not refer to an object or a particular person are indefinite pronouns; possessive
pronouns show possessing; personal pronouns replace an object or a particular person. Pronouns
can prevent constant repetition. An antecedent is the noun that comes before or after the
pronoun(s) that reference it (Pollitt and Baker 70-83). Faulty pronouns 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 his first pronoun/antecedent agreement error in the opening paragraph. He
states, “Tessy and I moved into her and my beachfront house on Philistine Avenue” (1).
The plural antecedent “Tessy and I” does not agree with the singular possessive pronouns “hers
and my.” To fix the sentence, Dent needs to replace the singular possessive pronouns “her and
my” with a plural pronoun. The revised sentence will read, “Aunt Tessy and I moved into our
beachfront house on Philistine Avenue.”
Dent makes a pronoun/antecedent agreement error: “I was out front working on my old
motorcycle and said, “Hey Stewie, when a skater dude goes to Ludville Pipe, they need to go
big or go home” (1). The singular antecedent “skater dude” does not agree with the plural
pronoun “they” with a singular pronoun. The revised sentence will read, “I was out front working
on my old motorcycle and said, “Hey Stewie, when a skater dude goes to Ludville Pipe, he needs
to go hard or go home.”
Dent makes a pronoun/antecedent agreement error with an indefinite pronoun. He states,
“‘Stewart Pidd!” I yelled. Through the rusty spokes of my front rim, “Nobody wants to put their
relatives in a home....”’ (2). The singular indefinite pronoun “nobody” does not agree with the
plural possessive pronoun “their.” To fix the sentence, Dent needs to replace the plural
possessive pronoun “their” with a singular pronoun. The revised sentence will read, “‘Stewart
Pidd! “I yelled, through the rusty spokes of my front rim, “Nobody wants to put its relatives in
a home....”’
Dent makes a pronoun/antecedent agreement error using a collective noun. Dent writes,
“On a good day, the Dent clan will unite to make their relatives feel like chewed up gum” (2).
The singular collective pronoun “clan” does not agree with the plural possessive pronoun “their.”
The collective nouns function as a unit. To fix the sentence, Dent needs to replace the plural
pronoun with a singular pronoun. The revised sentence will read, “On a good day, the Dent clan
will unite to make its relatives feel like chewed up gum.”
Untrained writers and speakers who make pronoun agreement errors should consider the
wise words of Thomas Browne: “There is music wherever there is harmony, order or
proportion.” good writing is like good music .” Having pronoun agreement brings order or
proportion to one’s writing. Having harmony, order or proportion creates good writing.
Works Cited
Browne, Thomas. Attackthetext.com. 19 Sept.2009http://attackthetext.com.
Dent, Jimmy. “Go Big or Go Home.” 29 Feb. 2009.
Pollitt, Gary and Craig Baker. Steward Pidd Hates English. Fullerton, CA:
Attack The Text Publishing, 2009.
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