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The team members wanted to improve their skills.
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The sentence "Sarah and Jane are enjoying their vacation" is an example where the italicized pronoun "their" agrees in number with its antecedents "Sarah and Jane."
The pronoun should agree in number with its antecedent.
"The cats played with their toys." "The dogs wagged their tails happily." In both sentences, the italicized pronoun "their" agrees in number with its antecedent ("cats" and "dogs" respectively), making them grammatically correct.
Antecedent
"In the sentence below, identify the pronoun and its antecedent?"In this sentence the pronoun is its.The antecedent for the possessive adjective its is the noun pronoun.
The antecedent of their in this sentence is "Ana or Maria."
The antecedent is "this". Strictly, the "ante" in "antecedent" means "before", and so the antecedent should be in an earlier sentence. But this sentence uses an inversion: "it" comes before the explanation of what "it" is. So there does not need to be an earlier sentence. In fact, this sentence about Carla could even be the first sentence in a novel.
Spotless could replace impeccable in that sentence.
I can assure you that your antecedent enjoyed no such privilege. This event has a colorful story regarding it's antecedent.
The title of the play, "Romeo and Juliet," should be italicized in the sentence.
"The boys want their dessert now."Yes, the possessive adjective 'their' agrees in number with the plural noun 'boys'.The pronoun 'their' is the plural form used to describe a noun belonging to a plural noun (or two or more nouns).
The antecedent is the noun that a pronoun represents in the sentence. The stated antecedent is an antecedent that is actually in the sentence or a preceding sentence. Sometimes the antecedent is not stated, it is understood by the speaker and the listener. Examples:Margaret made this cabinet herself. She is very handy with tools. The pronouns herself and she represent the stated antecedent Margaret.This is the model car she was telling me about. The antecedent for the pronoun she is not stated, the speaker and the listener already know or understand who she is.
An antecedent in a sentence is the word to which a later pronoun refers. In the sentence "Bob jumped up and the cat scratched him" the noun Bob is the antecedent to the pronoun 'him.'e.g The sentence did not contain a clear antecedent.It can also mean something that goes before, such as ancestors or the earlier events of your life.That event was an antecedent to his accident.Homeopathy was an antecedent to modern medicine.
Novels are typically italicized when mentioned in a sentence or paragraph. However, if you are hand-writing the title, you would underline it.
The antecedent in the sentence would be Doyle.