Pronoun Agreement

Pronouns must agree in number, gender, and person with their antecedents.
Incorrect: Neither of my classmates are taking the trip this summer.
If the subject of the sentence is a pronoun, that pronoun needs to agree in number with
the verb. In the sentence above, the pronoun “neither” is always singular, and it should take
the singular form of the verb:
Correct: Neither of my classmates is taking the trip this summer.

RULE TO REMEMBER
Pronouns must agree in number, in gender, and person with their antecedents.
Incorrect: Everybody has been bringing in their own lunch lately.
The indefinite pronoun “everybody” is always singular. The pronoun “their” which refers
back to its antecedent everybody also needs to be in the singular form. Here is the corrected
form of the above sentence:
Correct: Everybody has been bringing in his or her own lunch lately.

AGREEMENT IN NUMBER
Indefinite Pronouns
Some indefinite pronouns are always singular:

anybody everybody anyone everyone

anything everything another each
either neither one no one
nobody someone somebody

Correct:
Neither of the best players in the last game was injured.
Correct:
Anyone of the guests is welcome to participate in the raffle.
Correct:
Everyone has cast his or her vote.

Some are always plural:

both few several many

Correct:
Few of the days this spring have been above 50 degrees.
Correct:
Several of the participants shared their personal experiences.
And some can be both singular or plural depending on the kind of noun they refer to.

all any most none some

Correct: None of the food has been left after the party.
Correct: None of the players have quit the team after a difficult season.

RELATIVE PRONOUNS
A relative pronoun is a pronoun that refers to a noun preceding it in the sentence. This noun is
called its antecedent.

Relative pronouns need to agree with their antecedents in number. If the nouns relative
pronouns are referring to (antecedents) are plural, then the plural form of the verb is used, and if
the noun is singular, then the singular form of the verb is needed.

Correct: John was one of the players who were chosen to play in the final game.
Correct: John is the player who has scored in most of the games.

AGREEMENT IN GENDER
Here most problems occur when the antecedent may be either masculine or feminine. To avoid
gender bias, it is best to use his or her in such sentences. For example,

Incorrect: Each faculty member of the department is encouraged to share his grant proposals
with the committee.
Correct: Each faculty member of the department is encouraged to share his or her grant
proposals with the committee.

AGREEMENT IN PERSON
A personal pronoun must also agree in person with its antecedent. Pronouns one, everyone,
everybody are third person pronouns. They should be followed by he, his, him or she, her, hers.

Incorrect: One should carefully consider your choice of major.

Correct: One should carefully consider his or her choice of major

ANTECEDENT - the subject (person of noun)

Present Simple:
I do, I do do
Present Continuous:
I am doing
Present Perfect:
I have done
Present Perfect Continuous:
I have been doing
Past Simple:
I did, I did do
Past Continuous:
I was doing
Past Perfect:
I had done
Past Perfect Continuous:
I had been doing
Future Simple:
I will do
Future Continuous:
I will be doing
Future Perfect:
I will have done
Future Perfect Continuous:
I will have been doing
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