Identifying Pronoun Antecedents

For each sentence, choose the noun that is the antecedent of the underlined pronoun.

For help with this exercise, see section 27a of Foundations First, Fifth Edition.

  1. Question

    When Elizabeth Cady Stanton was young, she realized that girls were considered less important than boys.

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    Identifying Pronoun Antecedents: For each sentence, choose the noun that is the antecedent of the underlined pronoun. - When Elizabeth Cady Stanton was young, she realized that girls were considered less important than boys.

  2. Question

    In the mid-1800s women had few legal rights, and they were under the control of their fathers or husbands.

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    Identifying Pronoun Antecedents: For each sentence, choose the noun that is the antecedent of the underlined pronoun. - In the mid-1800s women had few legal rights, and they were under the control of their fathers or husbands.

  3. Question

    Elizabeth’s father, a respected judge, wished that she had been a boy.

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    Identifying Pronoun Antecedents: For each sentence, choose the noun that is the antecedent of the underlined pronoun. - Elizabeth’s father, a respected judge, wished that she had been a boy.

  4. Question

    After attending a women’s college, Elizabeth married Henry Stanton, and they had children.

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    Identifying Pronoun Antecedents: For each sentence, choose the noun that is the antecedent of the underlined pronoun. - After attending a women’s college, Elizabeth married Henry Stanton, and they had children.

  5. Question

    Elizabeth and her husband were abolitionists who hated slavery and fought against it.

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    Identifying Pronoun Antecedents: For each sentence, choose the noun that is the antecedent of the underlined pronoun. - Elizabeth and her husband were abolitionists who hated slavery and fought against it.

  6. Question

    While women were protesting slavery, they began to fight for women’s rights.

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    Identifying Pronoun Antecedents: For each sentence, choose the noun that is the antecedent of the underlined pronoun. - While women were protesting slavery, they began to fight for women’s rights.

  7. Question

    After the Civil War, black men had the vote, but women of all races did not have it.

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    Identifying Pronoun Antecedents: For each sentence, choose the noun that is the antecedent of the underlined pronoun. - After the Civil War, black men had the vote, but women of all races did not have it.

  8. Question

    The struggle to give women the vote took many years, and it faced much opposition.

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    Identifying Pronoun Antecedents: For each sentence, choose the noun that is the antecedent of the underlined pronoun. - The struggle to give women the vote took many years, and it faced much opposition.

  9. Question

    A person opposed to votes for women would say that he or she believed that women did not belong in the rough world of politics.

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    Identifying Pronoun Antecedents: For each sentence, choose the noun that is the antecedent of the underlined pronoun. - A person opposed to votes for women would say that he or she believed that women did not belong in the rough world of politics.

  10. Question

    People who supported votes for women argued that they had the same right to vote as men did.

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    Identifying Pronoun Antecedents: For each sentence, choose the noun that is the antecedent of the underlined pronoun. - People who supported votes for women argued that they had the same right to vote as men did.