English Grammar - A Worksheet on Pronouns For Class 6, 7 and 8 (#pronouns)(#eduvictors)(#englishgrammar)

English Grammar - A Worksheet on Pronouns For Class 6, 7 and 8 

A pronoun is a word used in the place of noun. 

Q1: In the following sentences, underline the subject pronouns and circle the object pronouns.

①  We thanked her for the delicious supper.

②  She regularly consults her accountant for taxation.

③  It is a beautiful doll.

④  We gave them gifts and souvenirs.

⑤  They organised the event.

Following are the kinds of pronouns:

   - Personal

   - Possessive

   - Demonstrative

   - Relative

   - Interrogative

   - Reflexive and Emphatic

   - Distributive

   - Indefinite

Subjective personal pronouns are: I, You, We, He, She, They.

Objective personal pronouns are: Me,  you, us, him, her, them.

Q2: Identify the type of personal pronouns used in the following sentences. 

① I baked the cake.

② The cake was baked by me.

③ They lit the fire.

④ The fire was lit by them.

The pronouns that show possession are called possessive pronouns. Words like mine, its, his, hers, theirs, ours, yours are all possessive pronouns.

Q3: Underline the possessive pronouns in the following sentences.

① The keys with red tag are mine. 

② That is my book but this one is hers. 

③ That idea of yours is excellent.

④ We booked this table yesterday. It is ours.

Pronouns like that, this, these and those refer to specific things and hence are called demonstrative pronouns.

- near in distance or time (this, these)

- far in distance or time (that, those)

Q4: Identify and underline the demonstrative pronouns in the following sentences:

① Those were the days!

② Have you seen this?

③ That was tasty.

④ Do you like these?

The pronouns that are used to ask questions are called interrogative pronouns.

Commonly used interrogative pronouns are: who, whom, whose, what, which etc.

Q5: Identify and underline interrogative pronouns are: 

  ① What is your name? 

  ② Whom did you see last night?

  ③ Which is the road you like to take? 

  ④ Which is the car that hit you?

Indefinite pronouns that the pronouns that do not point to a pecific person, place or thing.

Examples are: Somebody, anybody, everybody, everything, another, someone, none, something etc.

Q6: Fill in the blanks with suitable indefinite pronouns in the following sentences. 

  ① _______ has taken my book. 

  ② This ice cream is tasty. Can I have ________?

  ③ You looks very weak. Have you eaten _______ in last two days?

  ④ They are very poor now. They lost ________ in the earthquake last year.

Reflexive Pronouns

When action of the subject reflects or turns back on the subject itself are called reflexive pronouns.

e.g. He injured himself. 

'Himself; is the reflexive pronoun in the above sentence.

The choice of reflexive pronoun depends on the personal pronoun used. Here are a few examples:

Personal pronoun Reflexive pronoun

   I (singular)     myself

   you (singular)     yourself

   you (plural)     yourselves

   they (plural)     themselves

   he/she (singular)     himself/herself

   it (singular)     itself

   we (plural)     ourselves

Emphatic Pronoun

A pronoun used to convey emphasis is called emphatic pronoun. They are used along with personal pronouns.

e.g. I myself locked the door. (myself is the emphatic pronoun here.)

Q7: Read the following sentences, identify the underlined pronoun is reflexive pronoun or emphatic pronoun.

  ① Can you do this job by yourself? 

  ② Raghu himself packed the bag.

  ③ They themselves completed the assignment. 

  ④ She cannot reach here by herself.

Distributive Pronouns

Distributive pronouns indicate whether persons or things are taken one ata time or in separate groups

For Example: 

'Each' of them take part in the game.

'Either' of the two roads leads to Ambala.

Relative Pronouns

Pronouns that link a phrase or a clause to another in a sentence are called relative pronouns.

e.g. Who, which, whom, that, whose, What...

I thanked the man 'who' saved my son.

Rules for Usage of Relative Pronouns

 ❑ Who and whom is used to refer to human beings,

 ❑ Which is used to refer to things, animals and plants.

 ❑ That can be used for both humans and things.

Q8: Choose the correct option (relative pronoun) and fill in the blanks:

   ① Mahatma Gandhi, ________ a legendary figure, was born in Porbandar.

i. who 

ii. whose 

iii. which

   ②  The cafe __________ is famous for cold coffee is not far from here.

    i. whom 

    ii which 

    iii. where

   ③  He is a banker ________ no one trusts.

    i. who 

    ii. whom 

    iii. which

   ④ The girl ________ books I borrowed is my classmate.

    i.  who 

    ii.  whom 

    iii. whose

Answers:

1: ① We - Subject Pornoun (SP)

         her - Object Pronoun (OP)

    ②  She - SP, her - OP 

    ③  It - SP 

    ④  We - SP, them - OP 

    ⑤  They - SP

2: ① I - Subjective Personal Pronoun (SPP)

    ② me - Objective Personal Pronoun (OPP)

    ③ They - SPP

    ④ them - OPP

3: ① mine

    ② hers 

    ③ yours

    ④ ours

4: 

   ① Those 

   ② this

   ③ that

   ④ these

5: 

   ① What 

   ② Whom

   ③ Which

   ④ Which

6: 

  ① Someone/somebody 

  ② another

  ③ anything

  ④ everything

7:   

  ① reflexive

  ② emphatic

  ③ emphatic

  ④ reflexive

8:

   ① i. who

   ② ii which

   ③ ii. whom

   ④ iii. whose

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