Pronouns

Question 1

Pronouns

Answer 1

Replace the noun
in a sentence

Question 2

Personal Pronoun

Answer 2

Replaces the
subject or object in
a sentence e.g. I,
we, me, him

Question 3

Reflexive pronoun

Answer 3

Indicate object of a
verb is the same as
the subject of the
sentence e.g. ‘-
self/-selves in
themselves’ like in
‘they were going to
do it themselves

Question 4

Indefinite pronoun

Answer 4

Do not refer to any
specific person of
thing e.g.
‘someone’
‘anything’
‘everything

Question 5

Demonstrative
pronoun

Answer 5

They tend to point
to something e.g.
‘that’, this’ (but if it
comes before a
noun it isn’t the
pronoun)

Question 6

Possessive pronoun

Answer 6

Show possession
(hers, ours, mine)
only when not
placed before the
noun.

Question 7

Interrogative
pronoun

Answer 7

Used when asking
a question e.g.
who, whose,
which, what (in
who did this, which
is it)

Question 8

Relative pronoun

Answer 8

Act as linking words
in a sentence
always placed
immediately AFTER
the noun they refer
to e.g. whom, who,
whose, which, that.
(The man, who had
decided to go
home, was walking
very quickly)

Question 9

First Person

Answer 9

First person involves
you personally (I,
we, me, us, our,
my)

Question 10

Second Person

Answer 10

Second person is
you, your, yours
only

Question 11

Third Person

Answer 11

Third person
involves other
people e.g. he,
she, they, them,
their