Common mistake Missing verb: PRONOUN + NOUN (VERB)

Common Mistake: Missing Verb After Pronoun

Using a noun immediately after a pronoun can result in a grammatical error. Instead, you should use a verb or an adverb, or possibly another part of speech.

Let's take a look at some examples:

"Did you mean to write 'in' here?"
"Did you forget to add 'or'?"
"Did you mean to use the object pronoun 'us' here?"
"Did you mean to use the possessive pronoun 'its' here?"

In all these examples, a verb is missing after the pronoun. The correct way to construct these sentences would be:

"Did you mean to write 'in' here?" -> "Did you mean to write 'in' here?"
"Did you forget to add 'or'?" -> "Did you forget to add 'or'?"
"Did you mean to use the object pronoun 'us' here?" -> "Did you mean to use the object pronoun 'us' here?"
"Did you mean to use the possessive pronoun 'its' here?" -> "Did you mean to use the possessive pronoun 'its' here?"

It's important to pay attention to the grammar structure when using pronouns to ensure clear and correct communication.

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Missing verb: PRONOUN + NOUN (VERB) mistake examples

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… to which he response.
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You device isn't working.
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Sometimes, problems occur when they disambiguation the text.
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... (he status of the test is unknown).
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They boy and the girl felt awkward after they...
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In Australia, nearly 18 million acres of land have been burned - most of it bushland, forests and national parks were affected by the fires.
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... and much of it information, data, knowledge and related concepts.
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… to which he responds.
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… to which he quickly responded.
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She told me her secret.
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Is it bad?
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I have trust in you ma'am
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Without you life is cruel.
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Without you life has no meaning.
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Isn't it time to do it?
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He said 'You ain't'
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You ain my friend
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So all you crime busters, tomorrow night is the night.
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I can't believe how materialistic you energy traders are.
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Here's one for all you geography whizzes out there.
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We firemen in Cleveland can do it.
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Type I diabetes.
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The video gives you everything you need!
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The Class I shareholder report.
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I pray to you oh lord.
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I ain't stupid.
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Have we anything new to test?
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Haven't we anything new to test?
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All of you girls
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We farmers here in South Carolina.
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Aren't you something else?
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They can take care of you day by day.
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... if I ask you anything else today.
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I wouldn’t read within it anything other than the half (of the Qur’an) that I had previously memorized.
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They sold you garbage!
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I'm sharing with you insights and statistics about yesterday's traffic.
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It would take me too much time to explain to you why it's not going to work.
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Who wrote 'The World As I See It'?
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Doing all that you can is good enough.
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…success of the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship.
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The current proliferation of IT certifications...
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We robots will create a new order.
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The purpose of marriage in the Bahá'i faith is mainly to...
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... time since you've given me one of these, you bastards!
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... you fool!," he shouted.
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Dionysius Lardner wrote about it in 1834 in the Edinburgh Review.
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Were they lovers at that time?
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... wrote, "[T]he status of priest among Christians is merely that of...
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They kind of took me in.
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In the Huang He valley.
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The C/I dishwasher.
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We have an A.I director
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And, so it sort of all ended up fitting together.
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...in the gap and overlap regions of type I collagen fibrils with implications for bone...
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... were indeed historical figures and they most probably taught Buddha two different forms of...
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The essential feature of bipolar I disorder is a clinical course characterized by the ...
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Following the execution of Charles I in 1649 and the establishment of the Commonwealth...
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... which the good can be sold, the more of it producers will supply, as in the figure.
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Archaic. ... and by it thou mayest judge his fairness, both in hair and ...
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... pediatric and adult patients with bipolar I mania: a comparative analysis of...
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Some say we Argentinians are arrogant, but that's just because we're ...
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... but associates with it something of pusillanimity.
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...has no articles of faith; accordingly, in it nothing can be assumed as existing except what is...
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On no condition has he permission to touch it.
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... but had she time to do it?
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I'm going to stand with you arm in arm.
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I can provide to you information that you asked for.
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I can give to you something that makes you happy.
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... and by providing to it data which it will use in its calculations.
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Peter and him have someone they know and Ralph admires.
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Nearly 18 million acres of land have been burned - most of it bushland, forests and national parks, which...
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I love the way you are and friends should honor that.
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I love the way you are and time will tell whether we...
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We will be lost when they die and computers take over the world.
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I want to make the top of it semolina and and melt the chocolate...
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I'm getting ready to paint the top of it black and put a rose decal on it.
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I luv trucks.
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You folks sure have an idea!
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Uh, I dunno.
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We students all like baseball.
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publisher=iT News for Australian Business|accessdate=4 December...
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Let's transfer his .it domain
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I will be stopping by this morning to distribute the pages that were missing from the "Options" section in your Deriviatives I binder.
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Wyban, Carol Araki (1992) Tide and Current: Fishponds of Hawai'I University of Hawaii Press:: ISBN 978-0-8248-1396-3
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I bot 1,000/d apr/oct @ 2.91.
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The order Cucurbitales in the eurosid I clade comprises almost 2600 species in 109 or 110 genera in eight families, tropical and temperate, of very different sizes, morphology, and ecology.
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The EIA data contains FERC form I data.
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Canadian Forces identity discs (abbreviated "I discs") are designed to be broken in two in the case of fatality; the lower half is returned to National Defence Headquarters with the member's personal documents, while the upper half remains on the body.
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That's a little too much for me unless I get a mortgage which I horror the idea of owing any bank money.
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Two topoisomerase I inhibitors, irinotecan and topotecan, are semi-synthetically derived from camptothecin, which is obtained from the Chinese ornamental tree Camptotheca acuminata.
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I to I neg.
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However, if a C*-algebra has non-type I representations, then by results of James Glimm it also has representations of type II and type III
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I statements "All I know is that my role here is to.....
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Four months after the court victory, the common ingredients of ayahuasca as well as harmala were declared stupéfiants, or narcotic schedule I substances, making the tea and its ingredients illegal to use or possess.
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TO YOU tips or assistance in setting up your own personal CustomClips folders.
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Scene No. 5: Heraus, ihr Schönen von Mahagonny ("Come Out, You Beauties of Mahagonny")
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Probably not a big deal for most of you, but didn't want any of you Arians owners to get stuck on this short week if he was your guy.
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I can't be held responsible for the conscientious manner in which you SCADA people wish to satisfy the data requirements of the company.
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The poor dishrag is laying the blame at you Texans' feet.
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Waddell was the 27th and last batter, and when he flied out, Young shouted, "How do you like that, you hayseed?"
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“Rather, where are you carrying that debauched lot, you philanderer?”
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It was pretty rare to talk about God with people at Enron and I am thankful that I met you and in you someone who shared the same foundation of faith.
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I'll *give* you something to cry about.
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Insofar as you Treasurer watch goes, I'm still seeing a psychotherapist trying to learn to forgive you for letting Roby talk you into billing the chapter for about 400 $5,000 life insurance policies he milked the brothers into buying when he worked for MONY.
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Several of Saint Columba's prophecies reflect the scribal culture in which he was immersed, such his miraculous knowledge of the missing letter “I” from Baithene's psalter [15] or when he prophecies that an eager man will knock over his inkhorn and spill its contents.
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During the storage and before the fuel disposal, most of it beta decays to californium-249.
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They (women) are sometimes unable to stand the hard work of it day in and day out.
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National Alliance was a heterogeneous political party and within it members were divided in different factions, some of them very organized:
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Most people around the world would call \u0026gt; it terrorism when bombs and missiles are mercilessly dropped on innocent \u0026gt; people in Bagdad, Kabul, Tripoli, Khartoum, Hanoi or Hiroshima, not only \u0026gt; when they fall on America.
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We Democrats," said Sherman, "hope very much that our skepticism is proven wrong.
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Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols.
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The world is no longer safe, not even for we relics.
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One trader describes this as "probably the single best I environment for equity derivatives that we've seen in the last decade".
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I men's basketball debut tonight (Nov. 16) against Morehead State University.
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Five years later, Jones reflected that “it cost us something to stay out of an association, but we stayed out.
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I am going to look into and will need a breakdown from you day by day for these days(8/6 thru 8/10).

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I addition, on a regular basis, Lisa Valderrama and Pam Boxx need to be copied on any emails like this.

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In addition, on a regular basis, Lisa Valderrama and Pam Boxx need to be copied on any emails like this.
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How can I connection to newrelic website java Application program?

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If you anyone wants to go, let me know.

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If you or anyone wants to go, let me know.

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I'll forward the most recent version they have been sharing amongst themselves and not we lawyers.

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I'll forward the most recent version they have been sharing amongst themselves and not us lawyers.
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The world is no longer safe, not even for we relics.

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The world is no longer safe, not even for us relics.

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Much of it efforts have been spent on trying to persuade the U.S. to offer an alternative to Kyoto or come back to the negotiation table on the treaty.

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Much of its efforts have been spent on trying to persuade the U.S. to offer an alternative to Kyoto or come back to the negotiation table on the treaty.
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Engineering academic college: Any academic facility that offer at least Bachelor degree and most of it faculties are providing an Engineering degree and Engineering license.

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Engineering academic college: Any academic facilitsy that offer at least Bachelor degree and most of its faculties are providing an Engineering degree and Engineering license.
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I envision that NewCo upon it formation will have its own compensation plan which will provide competitive base salaries.

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I envision that NewCo upon its formation will have itss own compensation plan which will provide competitsive base salaries.
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Baeumerich said volumes in the French power market had risen sharply in recent weeks after Electricite de France last month auctioned off access to 1,200 megawatts of it generation capacity.

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Baeumerich said volumes in the French power market had risen sharply in recent weeks after Electricitse de France last month auctioned off access to 1,200 megawatts of its generation capacitsy.
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According to the United States Census Bureau the city's area includes of land and (40.83%) water, most of it part of San Francisco Bay.
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From the sounds of it it was both?
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The odds of it damaging anything are slim but I'd still want it out of there.
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JAC has huge sections of it that aren't public.
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But my reading has not prepared me for the monstrous proportions of it all.
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There are some sections of it which we are updating.
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This is very important when you are the systems administrator of 100's of thousands of IT systems that run critical infrastucture for your country.

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