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Finding Personal Pronouns
Underline each personal pronoun in the following sentences.
1. We enjoy many stories from Greek mythology.
2. You may have heard about Persephone and how the Greeks explained the
changes of the seasons.
3. She was the beautiful daughter of Demeter, the goddess of agriculture.
4. One day as she was picking flowers in the meadow, the ground opened.
5. Hades, the god of the dead, kidnapped her.
6. He took her to the underworld to be queen of his kingdom.
7. "Where is my daughter?" cried Demeter.
8. She became angry with the gods for allowing her daughter to be kidnapped.
9. She refused to allow their crops to grow.
10. The gods begged Zeus to help them.
11. Zeus asked Hades to return Persephone to her mother.
12. "But I have eaten pomegranate seeds as a sign of my marriage to Hades,"
said Persephone.
13. They finally came to an agreement.
14. Persephone would spend part of the year with her mother; this time would be
our spring, summer, and fall.
15. She would live in the underworld the rest of the time; this time would be
our winter.