Pronouns Test

What is an antecedent?

• A Person, Place, Thing, or Idea
• An Action Word
• A word that describes nouns
• The word the pronoun is replacing

The boy and the girl were playing in the mud, causing both to stain their shirts.

What is the antecedent for their?

• Boy, girl

• playing, causing

• mud, stain

• shirts

What pronoun should replace the second Tito's Taco Palace in red?  The students have decided to eat at Tito's Taco Palace, where they can order the special.  Tito's Taco Palace's prices are very low. 

• Its
• Their
• Everyone's 
• No change is needed

Xavier secretly admitted to his classmates that Mrs. Walker was his favorite teacher.

What is the antecedent for his?

• classmates
• Mrs. Walker
• teacher
• Xavier

Alexander, do you know God? His son's name is Jesus.

Circle any pronouns and draw an arrow to its antecedent.

List two personal plural pronouns.

Rewrite the sentence below replacing the underlined word with an appropriate pronoun.

Jacob loves to hunt with his father.

Rewrite the sentence below replacing the underlined word with an appropriate pronoun.

Jamie was popular at her school and she would tell the girls at the school what to do.

List two demonstrative pronouns that show objects that are near.

Which one points out something?

• Adjective

• Interrogative

• Demonstrative

• Verb