Rewriting sentences with nouns and replacing them with pronouns.. The boys wanted to give a dad a gift.
You can replace "boys" with "they." Replace "dad" with "him."
They wanted to give him a gift.
You can also replace "gift" with "it."
They wanted to go give him it.
Thanks that what I taught too Ms Sue... so can you help me with these one:
Tell Stella not to forget the balloons.
Can John go with Becky, Sam and me to play?
Steve gave the dogs a bath today.
The cats played with a ball of yarn.
I'll do the first one.
Tell her not to forget them.
How do you think you can do the rest?
thanks Ms Sue you are great. Am a mother with little education trying to help my baby with these am so lost. Am thankful that you did help me out..
You're very welcome.
Here's a short list of common pronouns:
I, me, our, us, my
you, your, yours
he, she, it, him, her, they, them, its
To rewrite the sentence by replacing nouns with pronouns, first identify the nouns in the sentence: "boys" and "dad."
Next, replace these nouns with pronouns: "they" for "boys" and "him" for "dad."
The rewritten sentence would be: "They wanted to give him a gift."