Grade 5 · Writing · Lesson 7

Grammar: Pronoun Clarity, Misplaced Modifiers, and Parallel Structure

Three small grammar bugs trip up almost every fifth-grade writer: foggy pronouns, modifiers in the wrong spot, and lists whose items do not match. None of them are about big words — they are about putting words in the right place so the reader is never confused. Once you can name the bug, you can fix it in seconds.

What this lesson teaches

1Spot pronouns whose antecedent is unclear and rewrite them so the reader knows who is acting
2Move a misplaced modifier next to the word it actually describes
3Make items in a list, pair, or series share the same grammatical form (parallel structure)
4Edit a short paragraph to fix all three sentence bugs at once

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