posted on October 24, 2001 03:20:34 PM new
I'd appreciate any help.
My sister is helping her son with his homework and she called me to ask for some help.
He has to fill in the blanks on about a dozen sentences with a pronoun:
Some examples:
John runs as fast as _____
Bill reads as well as _____
Lillian gets better grades than _____
Mary and Fred walk faster than ______
The choices are: I, you, he, she, him, her, they, etc.
I was told many moons ago that in order to figure out these corectly, all one has to do is substitute the pronoun with the subject of the sentence and the one that makes sense is correct. Using this theory though, I notice that there could be more than one right answer, so maybe I have this wrong:
Example:
Mary and Fred walk faster than they
or
Mary and Fred walk faster than I
or
Mary and Fred walk faster than we
Is this an easy way to remember how to figure out which word is right in this type of lesson?
posted on October 24, 2001 04:12:55 PM new
Maybe this will help...I'd read it, but I just finished helping my 8 year old with his first book report & I am FRIED!!!
posted on October 24, 2001 04:58:54 PM new
There are multiple correct answers to each of those questions, and the same answers would be correct for each sentence. Most of the words you listed above (I, you, he, she, him, her, they) would be correct except "she" or "him." Try adding the verb again at the end of any of those sentences, like,
John runs as fast as _____ runs.
Then it's easier to see which words are correct and which aren't.
Correct:
John runs as fast as he (runs).
John runs as fast as I (run).
John runs as fast as they (run).
(etc.)
Incorrect:
John runs as fast as him (runs).
(etc.)
Unless the layer of fuzz on my brain is thicker than I think, I'm pretty sure that's the way to do it.
posted on October 24, 2001 06:11:17 PM new
If "you" really is one of the choices, choose it everytime, 'cause "you" is used as both an objective and a subjective pronoun. There, isn't that simple?
