Curated OER
Agreement with Indefinite Pronouns Exercise
In this indefinite pronoun exercise, students choose appropriate indefinite pronouns to complete sentences. Students fill in the blanks in 15 sentences.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Pronouns and Pronoun Antecedent Agreement
This tutorial-quiz for pronoun usage features many examples of where pronouns fit in a sentence to achieve proper antecedent agreement.
Towson University
Towson University: Online Writing Support: Pronouns
This entry focuses on the kinds of pronouns including personal, relative, indefinite, demonstrative, interrogative, reflexive/intensive, and singular and plural pronouns. It provides an explanation and examples of each.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Cases of Nouns and Pronouns
In this writing and grammar tutorial, learn how to distinguish and use nouns and pronouns in English and whether they are subjective, nominative, possessive, or objective.
University College London
University College London: Types of Pronouns
This site from the Internet Grammar of English from the University College of London provides a table with examples of several types of pronouns. For each type, example pronouns and a usage example are given. Includes practice problems.
University College London
Internet Grammar of English: Pronouns
Grammar tutorial on the correct use pronouns. Includes a follow-up exercise on the identification of pronoun types.
Towson University
Towson University: Online Writing Support: Apostrophe
This entry explains and provides examples of when and how to use the apostrophe to show ownership and to form the plural of letters, numbers, and signs used as words. It also explains when not to use apostrophes such as with the pronoun...
Towson University
Towson University: Ows: Self Teaching Unit: Pronoun Antecedent Agreement
This lesson focuses on pronouns including personal pronouns, singular and plural personal pronouns, indefinite pronouns, and pronoun-antecedent agreement. It provides examples of each, explains types of errors and how to correct them,...
SUNY Empire State College
Empire State College: Exercise 2b: Agreement With Trick Singulars Advanced
Correct five sentences by identifying the incorrect words and supplying the correct word choice.
Towson University
Towson University: Online Writing Support: Determiners
This entry focuses on the types of determiners including articles, possessive nouns, numbers, indefinite pronouns, and demonstrative pronouns and provides examples of each.
University of Washington
Mary Nell's Summary on Agreement
Excellent summaries in table form of agreement issues, particularly those involving subjects and verbs.
Robin L. Simmons
Grammar Bytes: The Indefinite Pronoun
Printable information is provided that demonstrates how to identify an indefinite pronoun in the context of a sentence.
Robin L. Simmons
Grammar Bytes: Pronoun Agreement
Printable information is provided that demonstrates how to identify correct pronoun-antecedent agreement in the context of a sentence.
University of Calgary
Univ. Of Calgary: Parts of Speech: Personal, Possessive & Indefinite Pronouns
Defines and lists indefinite pronouns. Distinquishes between indefinite pronouns and indefinite adjectives.
British Council
British Council: Indefinite Pronouns
Learn about indefinite pronouns through explanations, examples, and practice exercises.
Grammarly
Grammarly Blog: Pronouns
This page focuses on pronouns including definitions, personal pronouns, antecedents, relative pronouns, who vs. whom, demonstrative, indefinite, reflexive and intensive, possessive, and interrogative pronouns. Examples are provided for...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Plurals Often Treated as Singular
This video lesson focuses on words that appear plural but take a singular verb. It discusses the rules of subject-verb agreement, and then looks at three kinds of confusing words: indefinite pronouns, collective nouns, and misleading...
Towson University
Towson University: Online Writing Support: Usage Pronoun Antecedent Agreement
This entry provides the nine rules for pronoun-antecedent agreement and examples for each.
University of Ottawa (Canada)
University of Ottawa: Using Pronouns
Clear and simple explanation of the various types of pronouns, this site is easy to read and follow.
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Grammar: Pronouns
This lesson focuses on pronouns including functions of pronouns, types of pronouns, pronoun person, number, and case, and pronoun and antecedent agreement and clarity. It also provides three pronoun videos, pronoun practice, and a...
Fact Monster
Fact Monster: Pronouns: Subjective, Objective, Possessive, Demonstrative, Etc.
This grammatical reference shares definitions of each type of pronoun. Each category of pronoun includes several examples. The following types of pronouns are included: demonstrative pronouns, indefinite pronouns, intensive pronouns,...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Grammar (English I Writing)
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson focuses on finding and fixing grammar errors in your writing. It includes strategies for locating errors such as reading your paper aloud to see if your are...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Grammar (English Ii Writing)
This lesson focuses on finding and fixing grammar errors in your writing. It includes strategies for locating errors such as reading your paper aloud to see if your are missing words. It also provides practice with subject-verb agreement...
Get It Write
Get It Write: Singular Indefinite Pronouns: Part 2
You'll find several examples in this tutorial of the correct singular verb form to be used with singular indefinite pronouns such as "everyone" and "either." A short quiz checks your understanding.