Example of Incorrect Concordances Due to the Misuse of the Pronoun

The pronoun, as part of the sentence, must keep a relationship of agreement with the other elements of the sentence. This agreement must exist in both gender and number.

These errors occur more frequently with relative pronouns, with demonstrative pronouns, with indefinite and possessive pronouns.

Some of these errors are due to ignorance or ambiguity regarding the gender of a noun, or when they substitute some collective nouns.

Examples of incorrect Concordances due to misuse of the pronoun:

• We saw a herd of buffalo. They They were going in the direction of the river. (…They they were going in the direction of the river)
• Toward a unbearable heat. (Toward a unbearable heat)
• If we walk ten minutes, we will reach is house by the river (…We reach that house by the river)
• Juan and Ramiro, Who they were late, no reached pie. (Juan and Ramiro, Who they were late, no they reached pie).
• It was a mixed team: green jerseys one, red others, blue the most. (…shirt green ones, red others ...)
• In Africa there are many animals: Lions, Monkeys, leopards, zebras...
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  All of them they live in the savannah (...all of them they inhabit ...)
• Who wants whoever is guilty will be punished. (Whoever ...)
• These are the friends of who I spoke to you, (... of whom I spoke to you.)
• Bring me some sweets any, (... any.)
• "You can't complain about me, you guys who mate"... (...to whom...)
• There are two streets whose streets they are narrow, (...what they are narrow)
• Here it was what the hikers got lost, (...where they got lost ...)