🔑 PRONOUNS: Practice Exercises Answer Guide

Use this guide to verify your answers for the Pronoun chapter exercises.

Exercise 1: Personal or Possessive Pronouns

• (a) → I
• (b) → I
• (c) → they
• (d) → My
• (e) → me
• (f) → He
• (g) → His
• (h) → I
• (i) → myself
• (j) → you
• (k) → your
• (l) → it
• (m) → yourself

Exercise 2: Demonstrative Pronouns

• 1. This is the cat I bought from a gypsy woman.
• 2. Those are the horses we bought from an Arabian merchant.
• 3. These are the cows my society brought from Mathura.
• 4. Such cattle are found everywhere in India.

Exercise 3: Relative Pronouns

• 1. The garden that (or which) you want to visit is closed today.
• 2. The mindset that (or which) makes you a coward should be changed.
• 3. The girl who came here today is charismatic.
• 4. The building, whose history is five hundred years old, belongs to my forefathers.
• 5. The dealer whom you gave the commission is absconding.
• 6. The pen which (or that) you lent me is very lucky for me.

Exercise 4: Indefinite Pronouns

Someone was telling me that everyone dreams of success and no one likes to be called a failure. I asked my friends if anyone was there who wished to be a failure; no one replied in the affirmative.

Exercise 5: Interrogative Pronouns

• 1. Whose car are you driving?
• 2. Which school did you graduate from?
• 3. Who is your role model?
• 4. How many of us are truly honest with themselves?
• 5. Whom do you consider a successful person?

Exercise 6: Missing Pronouns

• b. to teach Urdu us / me
• c. as it is beautiful itself
• d. grammar it is / Urdu is
• e. language himself
• f. He was a renowned scholar...
• g. Nizamuddin Aulia, himself
• h. Whose grave is still visited by them (or leave as stands, since line "h" contains "whose")

Exercise 7: Incorrect Pronouns Correction

• Line 2: Now she is eyeing → he (referring to Uday)
• Line 3: who will take place → which / that (referring to the championship tournament)
• Line 4: Its Gurudev is proud → His (referring to Uday)
• Line 5: one of this vegetarian champions → these (matches plural champions)
• Line 6: which slams the myth → who (referring to a human person/champion)