名词与代词和所有格的一致.ppt

Noun-Pronoun Agreement and Noun-Possessive Case Agreement
1) Generally, a pronoun must agree in person and number with its referent (. the noun a pronoun refers back to).
The two sisters have their own different characters.
They were talking about one of the girls in my class, but I didn’t know her at all.
2) Nouns such as audience, class, committee, crew, company, enemy, family, faculty, gang, government, public and team require a plural pronoun when they refer to the posing the collective, but a singular pronoun when they refer to the collective as a whole.
The public demanded that the government (should) carry out its new economic policy.
The government discussed this problem yesterday but they didn’t reach any agreement.
Every (Each) family has its own problems.
The Smith family are always quarrelling among themselves.
Nowadays the public admires the essful. Its sympathy for failures is skin-deep.
When the public found they were deceived by the media, their anger was beyond description.
3) Indefinite pronouns denoting “person” like one, everyone, everybody, no one, nobody, anyone, anybody, somebody, someone, etc., when used as the subject, require a singular personal pronoun such as “he, him, his”.
If anybody asks for me, please tell him e to my office.
Everyone mu