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

Exercise 7: Incorrect Pronouns Correction

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