Pronouns

Match the following terms and definitions

• expresses possession or ownership

• personal pronoun

• refers to people, animals, and objects

• relative pronouns

• refers back to subject to add emphasis

• reflexive pronoun

• 2nd pronoun refers to same person as 1st

• possessive pronoun

• connect dependent clauses to independent

• intensive pronoun

Answer explanation

Match the following terms and definitions

• refers to something generally

• personal pronoun

• indicates something specific

• reciprocal pronoun

• refers to people, animals, or objects

• interrogative pronoun

• used to ask questions

• demonstrative pronoun

• expresses mutual relationships or action

• indefinite pronoun

Match the following terms and examples

• mine, yours, his, her, ours, theirs, its

• possessive pronouns

• myself, yourself, itself, themselves

• indefinite pronouns

• some, many, anyone, none, everybody

• interrogative pronouns

• who, whom, what, which, whose

• reflexive/intensive pronouns

• I, you, she, he, it, they, we, us

• personal pronouns

Match the following terms and examples

• this, that, these, those

• relative pronouns

• who, whom, which, what, that

• reciprocal pronouns

• each other, one another

• demonstrative pronouns

A poorly timed breath might break a song's flow, interrupting the steady beat it relies on to help time their steps.

a. NO CHANGE

2. b. dancers rely

3. c. they rely

4. d. relied

The continuing popularity of Celtic mouth music is testament to the vitality of them.

• a. NO CHANGE

• b. this musical form.

• c. itself.

• d. one.

If it's not obvious what the pronoun is referring to, you should not use that pronoun.

• True

• False

The antecedent is the word the pronoun is referring to or replacing.

• True

• False

What is the antecedent of "they" in the following sentence?

Instruments were prohibitively expensive and thus scarce in isolated Scottish villages, and in order to fill the void, mouth music emerged and provided residents with the music they wanted for dancing.

On the New York Times home page, I noticed an article about Rafael Leonardo Black, a 64-year-old Clinton Hill artist ​​ (a)   had just been discovered.

• who
• of whom
• which
• whom