📚 English · Grammar & Punctuation
Pronouns for clarity
Choose pronouns for clarity and cohesion, avoiding ambiguity and repetition; use reflexive pronouns correctly (e.g., myself, ourselves, himself)
Typical age: 7–9 years
“When your child writes a paragraph about two people — like two characters in a story — do they use "he", "she", and "they" clearly enough that you always know who is being talked about?”
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- Agreement in sentencesREQUIRED
Pronoun-antecedent agreement requires pronoun cohesion knowledge
- Cohesion within paragraphs
Pronoun cohesion is a key cohesive device; prior work on choosing pronouns for clarity feeds directly into paragraph-level cohesion
- Relative Clauses
Relative pronouns (who, which, that) overlap with pronoun knowledge; pronoun cohesion supports understanding pronoun reference in relative clauses