Paragraph Agreement Answer Key
About This Worksheet
This Grade 7 Language Arts worksheet helps students choose pronouns that agree with their antecedents inside a full paragraph. Instead of working one sentence at a time, students must follow several people, groups, and objects through a short passage about an Innovation Expo. They use context to decide whether each blank needs it, its, they, their, his, or her. For example, the class may take its when the class is acting as one group, while Maya and Carlos need a plural pronoun such as they.
Learning Goals
The main goal is to help students apply pronoun-antecedent agreement in connected writing. Students should already understand how singular and plural pronouns match nouns. This activity moves them toward tracking antecedents across several sentences and choosing forms that fit both grammar and meaning. It supports CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.7.1, which focuses on correct pronoun use, agreement, and sentence clarity.
Student Tasks
On this worksheet, students will read a paragraph about a school Innovation Expo and fill in eight missing pronouns. They must identify the noun each blank refers to and then choose a pronoun that agrees in number and person. The passage includes a class, individual students, a backpack, a team of inventors, Maya and Carlos, an audience, and a committee. Students should reread the completed paragraph to make sure every reference is clear.
Common Challenges
Some students may choose a pronoun based on the nearest noun instead of the true antecedent. Others may switch between singular and plural treatment of a collective noun without noticing. The pronouns its and it’s can also be confused, even though only its shows possession. Encourage students to draw a light arrow from each blank back to the noun it replaces before selecting an answer.
Teaching Suggestions
A teacher can model the first blank by identifying the antecedent and saying whether it is singular or plural. Students can then complete the remaining items in pairs and explain one choice aloud. At home, a parent can ask the child to replace each blank with the full noun first, then swap in the pronoun. This makes the agreement much easier to hear.
Worksheet Features
The worksheet places eight pronoun choices inside one realistic school paragraph. A small word bank provides support without showing where each answer belongs. Because several antecedents appear close together, students must read carefully and use context. This page works well for paragraph editing, independent practice, homework, or a pronoun agreement assessment.