Inside Language, Literacy, and Content [Level E]

Language and Grammar, continued

A pronoun refers to a noun. A subject pronoun is a pronoun that is the subject of a sentence.

Subject Pronoun	Example Sentence
• Use I to talk about yourself. • Use we to talk about another person and yourself.	• I study ocean animals. • Lisa and I read books about the ocean. We study the photos.
• Use you to talk to another person. • Use you also to talk to more than one person.	• You are a good photographer. • Class, you are all good photographers.
• Use he to talk about one man or boy. • Use she to talk about one woman or girl. • Use it to talk about one thing, place, or idea. • Use they to talk about more than one person, place, thing, or idea.	• The diver photographs an octopus. He uses an underwater camera. • Lisa studies octopus behavior. She is amazed by their ability to hide. • The octopus squirts ink. It escapes quickly. • Octopuses have eight arms. They also have good eyesight.

Say each sentence with the correct subject pronoun.

1. Mark and I study a photo of an octopus. (We/They) are curious.
2. The poison of some octopuses is dangerous. (He/It) can hurt people.
3. The scientist takes a picture of an octopus underwater. (She/They) swims away slowly.
4. Octopuses are not good swimmers. (He/They) use their arms to crawl on the ocean bottom.

Write the correct subject pronoun on a card. Then say the sentence and add the pronoun.

5. Octopuses are very smart animals. (We/They) can change how they look.
6. Sometimes an octopus cannot trick its enemy. Then (they/it) uses ink to disappear.
7. A diver examines an octopus. (He/They) wears special gloves.
8. My sister and I want to learn more about octopuses. (We/You) do research on the Internet.

A scientist examines the suckers on an octopus.