### ✅ **Let's Practise – Personal and
Possessive Pronouns**
**Fill in the blanks with appropriate personal and possessive pronouns.
Mention their antecedents too.**
> Dear Swati
> Thank **you (antecedent: Swati)** for inviting **me (antecedent: speaker/writer)**
to your birthday next Sunday. A friend of **mine (antecedent: speaker/writer)**
is going to visit next week. Is it okay if **I (antecedent: speaker/writer)**
bring my friend to your party? **I (antecedent: speaker/writer)** am sure **they
(antecedent: Swati and others at the party)** will have lots of fun on your
birthday. Have you invited that cousin of **yours (antecedent: Swati)** who
plays the guitar? **I (antecedent: speaker/writer)** would love to listen to
him playing the guitar.
> I am really looking forward to this party of **yours (antecedent:
Swati)**.
> With love,
> Sam
### ✅ **Let's Practise – Demonstrative
Pronouns or Adjectives**
**Fill in the blanks with either demonstrative pronouns or demonstrative
adjectives. Also mention the type of word you have chosen.**
1. **This (demonstrative pronoun)** is my book and **that (demonstrative
pronoun)** belongs to Smriti.
2. The books lying on the desk belong to Swati. She forgot to take
**those (demonstrative pronouns)** home.
3. **These (demonstrative adjectives)** poems are written by William
Wordsworth. Can you memorize **these (demonstrative pronouns)**?
4. **This (demonstrative pronoun)** is a digital camera. My uncle bought
**this (demonstrative adjective)** camera last year.
5. **That (demonstrative pronoun)** is the house I told you about.
**That (demonstrative adjective)** house belongs to my sister.
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### ✅ **Let's Practise – Interrogative
Pronouns**
**Fill in the blanks with appropriate interrogative pronouns.**
1. **Who** is working on the mathematics project?
2. **What** is the medium of instruction in your school?
3. **Whose** is the owner of this pen?
4. **What** are you doing this weekend?
5. **Which** colour would you prefer, pink or blue?
6. **What** are you looking for?
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### ✅ **Let's Practise – Reflexive or
Emphatic Pronouns**
**Put a circle around the reflexive or emphatic pronoun in each sentence
and write what kind it is.**
1. My elder brother cooked my birthday meal **himself**. →
*emphatic*
2. Diya's cat likes to look at **itself** in the mirror. →
*reflexive*
3. The President of India **himself** presents the awards on Republic
Day. → *emphatic*
4. John bought **himself** a nice shirt to celebrate his success. →
*reflexive*
5. Rini found **herself** stuck in a massive traffic jam. →
*reflexive*
6. The patient was so critical that the senior doctor **himself**
performed the surgery. → *emphatic*
7. Ali **himself** washes all his clothes. He doesn't allow his mother
to do it for him. → *emphatic*
8. I can look after **myself**. → *reflexive*
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### ✅ **Let's Practise – Indefinite
Pronouns**
**Fill in the blanks with suitable pronouns from the box.**
1. Does **anyone** want a cup of hot tea? I must make **everyone** a
cup.
2. Sunil always looks at **himself** in the mirror. Do you also look at
**yourself** in the mirror?
3. We have a group of meritorious students. **They** are very
hard-working. **Many** have done extremely well in the National Talent Search.
**Several** have scored more than 90% in the last test examinations. **None**
scored less than 60% in it. We are confident that **all** will do well in their
board examinations if **everything** goes well.
4. **All** of you must bring a bottle of water and your lunch to the
playground. To be a good athlete you must keep **yourself** healthy.
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### ✅ **Let's Practise – Relative Pronouns
(Identify Antecedents)**
**Fill in the blanks with the appropriate relative pronouns and identify
their antecedents.**
1. All the teachers **who** were asked to be at the meeting attended it.
*(Antecedent: teachers)*
2. I found the box, **which** you had lost. *(Antecedent: box)*
3. The girl **whose** book I borrowed is my friend. *(Antecedent:
girl)*
4. Is this **what** you want for your birthday? *(No antecedent)*
5. The gift was exactly **what** she had been hoping for. *(No
antecedent)*
6. We welcome the students **who** have volunteered to help.
*(Antecedent: students)*
7. This is Saranya, **whose** bag was stolen in the bus yesterday.
*(Antecedent: Saranya)*
8. The tickets for the concert **that** I want to attend are sold out.
*(Antecedent: tickets)*
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### ✅ **Let's Practise – Omitting Relative
Pronouns**
**Omit the relative pronouns and rewrite these sentences. Remember to
shift the prepositions to the correct position.**
1. This is the school **to which** I went for the inter-school
debate.
→ This is the school I went to
for the inter-school debate.
2. The man **for whom** you are looking has already left.
→ The man you are looking for
has already left.
3. The music **that** I played in the morning is my favourite.
→ The music I played in the
morning is my favourite.
4. The book **about which** you are enquiring is out of print.
→ The book you are enquiring
about is out of print.
5. The girl **to whom** I introduced you yesterday is my cousin.
→ The girl I introduced you to
yesterday is my cousin.
6. This is the best inn **at which** you may stop on your way.
→ This is the best inn you may
stop at on your way.
7. That is the house **in which** I lived last year.
→ That is the house I lived in
last year.
8. I have a meeting with a man **whom** I hardly know.
→ I have a meeting with a man I
hardly know.
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### ✅ **Let's Practise – Joining Sentences
Using Relative Pronouns**
**Join the following sentences using relative pronouns.**
1. Sarah is going to visit her aunt for the summer holidays. Her aunt
lives in Mumbai.
→ Sarah is going to visit her
aunt **who** lives in Mumbai for the summer holidays.
2. A wasp is an insect. It stings.
→ A wasp is an insect **that**
stings.
3. Jhumpa has a bicycle. The bicycle has a basket attached to it.
→ Jhumpa has a bicycle **that**
has a basket attached to it.
4. I left a book in the class last Friday. I found the book.
→ I found the book **that** I
left in the class last Friday.
5. You wanted a CD. This is the CD.
→ This is the CD **that** you
wanted.
6. The bouquet of roses is really pretty. Shekhar gave it to his class
teacher.
→ The bouquet of roses **that**
Shekhar gave to his class teacher is really pretty.
7. Mrs Bose can sing very well. She teaches us mathematics.
→ Mrs Bose, **who** teaches us
mathematics, can sing very well.
8. Manisha and Murali are very good musicians. They learnt music in
Santiniketan.
→ Manisha and Murali are very
good musicians **who** learnt music in Santiniketan.
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