Grade 10 • Unit 3: Pronouns

LESSON 3.1
Personal Pronouns
Table of Contents

DepEd Competency 1

Objective 1

Learning Content 1
Topic 1
Materials 1
Reference 1
Time Frame 1

Learning Activities 2

Essential Question 2
Motivation 2
Warm-Up 2
Lesson Proper 2
Springboard 2
Review 3
Presentation of the Lesson 3
Discussion 3

Evaluation 6
Drills 6

Values Integration 7

Synthesis 7
Synthesis Activity 7
Possible Answers to the Essential Question 8

Assignment 8

Photo Credit 9

Bibliography 9
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Unit 3 | Pronouns
Lesson 1:Personal Pronouns

DepEd Competency
At the end of this lesson, students should be able to review subject and verb
agreement (EN10G-If-3.6; EN10G-Ig-3.6; EN10G-Ih-3.6;EN10G-Ii-3.6).

Objective
In this lesson, students should be able to classify personal pronouns as
nominative, objective, or possessive.

Learning Content

Topic
Personal Pronouns

Materials
● Presentation slides
● Copies of the drills

Reference
Quipper Study Guide: Grade 10 Unit 3.1 Personal Pronouns

Time Frame
90 minutes

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Learning Activities

Essential Question
1. If you will be using technology, refer to slide 6 of the slide presentation.
2. If you will not be using technology, write the essential question on the board.
“How does the use of personal pronouns help improve sentences?”
3. Instruct students to reflect on the question for a minute; call on a few to give
responses. Consolidate the responses and prepare the students for the warm-up
activity.

Motivation
Warm-Up

Think-Pair-Share
1. Instruct the students to examine the sentences and discuss with a partner what
is wrong with each underlined word.
● Put the ingredients in the pan and mix it together.
● My stuffed toys were donated to the children from the orphanage. Them
were very happy upon receiving them.
● My mother baked five cupcakes. We taste delicious.
2. After the activity, instruct the students to talk about what made some of the
sentences incorrect. Also, have them talk about what the incorrect pronouns did
to the meaning of the sentences.

Lesson Proper
Springboard
The teacher may say:
“In oral or written communication, knowing how to use pronouns, particularly
personal pronouns, is very important. Pronouns can help us construct clear and
concise sentences, which can greatly affect the communication process. Today, we

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are going to discuss the different cases of personal pronouns and how to use them
in sentences properly.”

Review
To gauge the students’ prior knowledge about the topic, you may ask them the
following questions:
● What are personal pronouns?
● Can you give examples of personal pronouns?

Presentation of the Lesson

1. After the review of the lesson, proceed to the lesson proper.
2. If using technology, start from slide 9 of the slide presentation.
Presentation File Link

Discussion
While discussing the lesson from the study guide, you may present the additional
examples below to the students.

Personal pronouns are used to refer to persons, things, animals, and ideas.
Examples:
You need to be at the train station by 9:00 a.m. tomorrow.
They live in the house across from ours.
Marie left it on top of the dining table.

Cases of Personal Pronouns

Nominative/Subjective Case
Examples:
I need to visit my parents next week.
The doorman is he.
You, Jerry, should take this medicine every morning.
The director of the play, you, did a great job.

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The pronoun I in the first sentence is used as a subject. The pronoun he in

the second sentence functions as a predicate nominative since it comes after
a linking verb and acts as a substitute for the pronoun I. Then, the pronoun
you functions as a direct address to the noun Jerry. Lastly, In the fourth
sentence, the pronoun you functions as an appositive since it appears right
next to a noun that it renames and identifies.

Objective Case

Examples:
Ms. Reyes told me to study more so that I would get better grades.
The shopkeeper gave him a piercing gaze as he approached the store.
You need to apologize to her for the wrong things you have done.
The school nurse checked up the kids with fever, Vanessa and me.

The pronoun me in the first sentence acts as a direct object as it directly

receives the action of the verb told. The pronoun him in the second sentence
acts as an indirect object as it receives the direct object. The pronoun her in
the third sentence acts as an object to the preposition to. Lastly, the
pronoun me in the last sentence acts as an appositive since it is one of the
words that renames the noun kids.

Possessive Case

Examples:
The child walking down the street is theirs.
The child walking down the street is their child.

The pronoun theirs in the first sentence is an absolute possessive pronoun

as it does not modify anything, whereas the pronoun their in the second
sentence is a possessive adjective as it is modifying the noun child.

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Some Guidelines Regarding the Use of Personal Pronouns

a. When a personal pronoun is joined with a noun by a conjunction, the
case of the pronoun depends on its position in the sentence.

Examples:
Incorrect: Mary and me will go to the market to buy vegetables and fish.
Correct: Mary and I will go to the market to buy vegetables and fish.

Incorrect: The package was for Victor and I.

Correct: The package was for Victor and me.

In the first set of sentences, the pronoun functions as the subject of the
sentence, so the nominative pronoun I should be used. In the second set
of sentences, the pronoun is functioning as an object of the preposition,
so the objective pronoun me should be used.

b. Sentences containing comparisons usually leave out some words, making

it tricky to decide which case of personal pronoun to use. Complete the
comparisons in your head to figure out the right pronoun for the
sentence.

Examples:
Our car is larger than them.
Our car is larger than their car.
Our car is larger than theirs.

The first sentence is an illogical comparison since using an objective pronoun

means that the car is being compared to people. The second sentence shows
a logical comparison since it compares a car to another car. The pronoun
used should thus be a possessive pronoun or a possessive adjective.

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c. Personal pronouns functioning as the predicate nominative rename the

subject in a sentence. They often follow be verbs.

Examples:
Incorrect: It was her who cut the folders.
Correct: It was she who cut the folders.

The personal pronoun in the sentence functions as a predicate

nominative renaming the subject. It should thus be a nominative
pronoun.

Evaluation
Drills
Ask the students to accomplish the following drills. You may print copies of the
worksheet from here.

Underline the personal pronoun(s) in each sentence.

1. They donated their old clothes to the orphanage nearby.
2. The boys couldn’t hold back their glee when their father presented them with a
puppy.
3. Have you seen her new haircut?
4. The house right next to the vacant lot at the end of this street is ours.
5. Felicity asked him to help her with the project.

Identify the case of each underlined pronoun. Write N for nominative, O for
objective, and P for possessive.
1. The principal asked the misbehaving students, Dana and him, to go home. (O)
2. Without it, the task would have been difficult to complete. (O)
3. It was safely stored in the drawer. (S)
4. They didn’t need to borrow our tools because they had their own. (P)

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5. Olivia gave me a gift on my birthday, and I thanked her. (S)

Underline the correct pronoun in each sentence.

1. Our team leader put the blame on (they, them, their, theirs).
2. Alfred asked (she, their, it, them) if they have assignments.
3. Jessica forgot to bring (his, its, her, hers) red pen.
4. It was (him, he, her, his ) who stole a loaf of bread from the bakery.
5. Jonas offered (she, him, I, my) a new pair of shoes for his birthday.
6. The class president and (me, their, I, her) are requested to join the seminar.
7. (Us, She, His, Hers) delivered five boxes of donuts yesterday.
8. (You, It, Her,His), Crawford, should deliver the welcome speech tomorrow.
9. The judge read the sentence to the two convicts, Garen and (she, them, her,
his).
10. The large house in front of the mall is (her, them, theirs, they).

Values Integration
To relate the students’ learning to real-world situations, ask them this question:
How can our knowledge of the different cases of personal pronouns help us
convey our thoughts more clearly?

Synthesis
Synthesis Activity
1. Divide the class into four groups.
2. Have each group do the following tasks below:
a. Take turns making a statement about someone in the group using a
personal pronoun instead of his/her name.
Examples:
I sat beside her.
He lent me his pen yesterday.

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b. The personal pronoun cases to be used should be in this order:

nominative, objective, and possessive. This means that if the previous
speaker used the nominative case, the next person should use the
objective case.
c. After each sentence, other members must guess who the speaker is
talking about.
d. Correct the speaker’s error after the guessing is done if a pronoun is
misused.
e. Write all the sentences on a cartolina and present them in front of the
class.
3. Ask the following questions to guide the students in processing:
a. What made the activity challenging?
b. Were you able to spot errors in your group mates’ sentences?
c. Was it difficult to use personal pronouns properly in speaking? Why or
why not?
d. What should one remember when using the cases of personal pronouns
in speaking?

Possible Answers to the Essential Question

Possible answer 1: Using personal pronouns helps us construct concise sentences. Instead
of repeating a noun in sentences, we can use personal pronouns to make our sentences
shorter.

Possible answer 2: Using personal pronouns helps us construct clear sentences. Because
personal pronouns make our sentences concise, the message also becomes clear. Hence,
we can be better understood by other people when we speak.

Assignment
Instruct the students to do the following at home:
1. Look for a short story or essay that uses personal pronouns.

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2. List down 15 sentences from the text that contain personal pronouns.
3. In the list you made, underline the personal pronouns and identify the case of each.
4. Write your answers in your notebook.

Alternative Digital Output

Activity under Synthesis can be video recorded and saved on a designated Google
drive. Answers to the Assignment can also be scanned or typed using a Word
Processor, and then stored in Google Drive.

Photo Credit
Fig 1. People Walking on Pedestrian Lane by Kaique Rocha is licensed under pexels.com.

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