Pronouns

Pronouns

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Examples of Personal Pronouns

• I saw John yesterday. John saw me yesterday.

• You like John. John likes you.

• He loves Angela. Angela loves him.

• She knows David. David knows her

• It costs a lot of money. Eric bought it.

• We saw John. John saw us.

• They live together in Paris.We met them in Spain.

Multiple Choice

_______ is sitting on the sofa.

• I

• They

• You

Multiple Choice

Are _______ from Puerto Rico?

• he

• she

• you

Multiple Select

__________ are speaking English.

• She

• We

• I

• They

Multiple Select

Is ______ Kevin's sister?

• he

• she

• you

Indefinite pronouns

• I would like to go somewhere this summer.

• Someone gave me this book.

• I won't tell your secret to anyone.

• I bought everything at the mall.

• REMEMBER: indefinite means you can't defy who or what the subject refers to.

Multiple Select

Would you like _______ to eat?

• nothing

• anything

• something

Multiple Choice

It was really dark and I couldn't see __________

• something

• anything

Multiple Choice

The guidebook says there's a good hotel ________ near here.

• nowhere

• somewhere

• anywhere

Multiple Choice

Do you have _______ to report on your science project?

• anything

• several

• some

Relative Pronouns

• The driver who ran the stop sign was careless.

• The children, whom we love dearly, need better educations.

• Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.

• The book, which is now out of print, has all the information you need.

• This is the book that everyone is talking about.

• _{Remember: if it DOES NOT start with who, whom, whose, or which and end with a question mark, then it is not interrogative but relative.}

Multiple Select

What did you do with the money ________ your mother lent you?

• who

• which

• whose

• that

Multiple Choice

I talked to the girl __________ car had broken down inf front of my house.

• whose

• whom

• which

Multiple Choice

Mr Richards, ________ is a taxi driver, lives down the street.

• who

• which

• whose

Multiple Choice

Thank you very much for your email _________ was very interesting.

• who

• which

• whose

Interrogative Pronouns

• Who won the football match?

  
  

• Whom shall we ask when we get there?

  
  

• Whose did they take?

  
  

• What is that you have made?

  
  

• REMEMBER: Just because it has a question mark it DOES NOT mean the pronoun in the setence is interrogative.

Multiple Choice

———————— did you do then?

• What

• Which

• How

Multiple Choice

———————- is knocking at the door?

• What

• Which

• Who

Multiple Choice

———————– do you want to see?

• What

• Who

• Whom

• All of the answers

Multiple Select

———————– did you see?

• Who

• What

• Whom

Demonstrative Pronouns

• This was my mother’s ring.

• That looks like the car I used to drive.

• These are nice shoes, but they look uncomfortable.

• Those look like riper than the apples on my tree.

• These pronouns POINT OUT something or someone. If it's not then it would be relative. Sometimes in the middle of a sentence they can be used to point out something, always READ CAREFULLY.

Multiple Select

____________ was such an interesting experience.

• That

• These

• Those

• This

Multiple Choice

Are ___________ your shoes?

• That

• Them

• Those

• This

Multiple Select

You’ll have to get your own pen. ______________ is mine.

• That

• Those

• Such

• This

Multiple Choice

There is no end to ___________.

• such

• those

• this

• that

Reflexive & Intensive Pronouns

• You’re going to have to drive yourself to school today. (Reflexive)

• Jennifer does chores herself because she doesn’t trust others to do them right. (Reflexive)

• Jim made coffee for the king himself. (Intensive)

• Jonathan built the shed in the backyard all by himself. (Intensive)

• _{REMEMBER: A reflexive pronoun reflects back on the subject of the sentence while an intensive pronoun adds emphasis or intensity to a noun.}

Multiple Choice

Dad and I painted the trailer ourselves.

• intensive

• reflective

Multiple Choice

The children made holiday decorations by themselves.

• reflexive

• intensive

Multiple Choice

After our home was destroyed by a tornado, we rebuilt a home ourselves.

• reflexive

• intensive

Multiple Choice

If you have younger siblings, you are probably used to hearing them say, “I can do it myself!”

• reflexive

• intensive