Pronouns Review

Match the following terms and definitions

• refers back to subject to add emphasis

• reflexive pronoun

• refers to people, animals, and objects

• personal pronoun

• expresses possession or ownership

• relative pronouns

• 2nd pronoun refers to same person as 1st

• intensive pronoun

• connect dependent clauses to independent

• possessive pronoun

Answer explanation

Tags

CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.1.1D

Match the following terms and definitions

• refers to something generally

• demonstrative pronoun

• used to ask questions

• personal pronoun

• indicates something specific

• indefinite pronoun

• refers to people, animals, or objects

• interrogative pronoun

Match the following terms and examples

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

• indefinite pronouns

• who, whom, what, which, whose

• possessive pronouns

• I, you, she, he, it, they, we, us

• interrogative pronouns

• some, many, anyone, none, everybody

• reflexive/intensive pronouns

• myself, yourself, itself, themselves

• personal pronouns

Tags

CCSS.L.3.1A

Match the following terms and examples

• who, whom, which, what, that

• indefinite pronouns

• all, each, somebody, everybody

• relative pronouns

• this, that, these, those

• demonstrative pronouns

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

• True

• False

Tags

CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.6.1A

CCSS.L.6.1C

CCSS.L.6.1D

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.

Tags

CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.6.1A

CCSS.L.6.1C

CCSS.L.6.1D

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

Tags

CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.4.1A

Read the following sentences. What's the downside of using a demonstrative pronoun?

1. This is proof of the book’s theme.

2. That is the only way out.

3. These don’t belong to you, but those

do.

• They are always very specific and let you know exactly what's being referred to

• They aren't very specific if you haven't already named what the pronoun replaces

• They take up a lot of room when you write

• They are hard to spell

Select the correct demonstrative pronoun to complete this sentence:

Can you grab the shoes? ----- are his!

• those
• them
• that
• these

Select the correct demonstrative pronoun to complete this sentence:

Why do I have to take a test on Grammar! We'll never use ----- stuff!

• those
• them
• this

• these