Types of pronouns worksheet-3

Types of Pronouns Worksheet-3

See the underlined pronoun and state its kind:

1. We shall come to see you next week.

(A) Possessive pronoun               (B) Personal pronoun

(C) Possessive pronoun               (D) Reflexive pronoun

2. That island is theirs; they visit is often.

(A) Possessive pronoun               (B) Emphatic pronoun

(C) Demonstrative pronoun       (D) Personal pronoun

3. What is there in your bag?

(A) Demonstrative pronoun      (B) Interrogative pronoun

(C) Emphatic pronoun                (D) Personal pronoun

4. The Shahs themselves came and helped us.

(A) Reflexive pronoun                 (B) Demonstrative pronoun

(C) Possessive pronoun               (D) Emphatic pronoun

5. They came and returned the lost books themselves.

(A) Possessive pronoun               (B) Reflexive pronoun

(C) Personal pronoun                  (D) Demonstrative pronoun

6. Give her some apples, will you?

(A) Emphatic pronoun                (B) Possessive pronoun

(C) Personal pronoun                  (D) Reflexive pronoun

7. You yourself must learn the spellings.

(A) Emphatic pronoun                (B) Personal pronoun

(C) Demonstrative pronoun       (D) Possessive pronoun

8. Who will write this essay?

(A) Personal pronoun                  (B) Interrogative pronoun

(C) Emphatic pronoun                (D) Possessive pronoun

9. Such is the situation that I do not know what to do.

(A) Personal pronoun                  (B) Reflexive pronoun

(C) Demonstrative pronoun      (D) Emphatic pronoun

10. Whose are these torn ribbons?

(A) Interrogative pronoun          (B) Possessive pronoun

(C) Emphatic pronoun                (D) Personal pronoun

11. Is the new car yours?

(A) Reflexive pronoun                 (B) Demonstrative pronoun

(C) Possessive pronoun               (D) Emphatic pronoun

12. This is the very man I was telling you about.

(A) Possessive pronoun               (B) Interrogative pronoun

(C) Personal pronoun                  (D) Demonstrative pronoun

Answers :

1. (B)

Exp: ‘We’ is used for the 1st person and hence it is a personal pronoun.

2. (A)

Exp: ‘Theirs’ shows possession and hence it is a possessive pronoun.

3. (B)

Exp: A question has been asked and no noun follows ‘what’; hence it is an interrogative pronoun.

4. (D)

Exp: ‘Themselves’ immediately follows ‘The Shahs’ and hence it is an emphatic pronoun.

5. (B)

Exp: ‘Themselves’ does not immediately follow ‘they’ and hence it is a reflexive pronoun.

6. (C)

Exp: ‘Her’ is used for the 3rd person and so it is a personal pronoun.

7. (A)

Exp: ‘Yourself’ comes immediately after ‘you’ and hence it is an emphatic pronoun.

8. (B)

Exp: A question has been asked and hence it is an interrogative pronoun.

9. (C)

Exp: ‘Such’ points to the ‘situation’ and no noun follows it; hence it is a demonstrative pronoun.

10. (A)

Exp: A question is asked and no noun follows ‘Whose’ and hence it is an interrogative pronoun.

11. (C)

Exp: ‘Yours’ shows possession and hence it is a possessive pronoun.

12. (D)