Pronouns

Match the following terms and definitions

• refers back to subject to add emphasis

• personal pronoun

• connect dependent clauses to independent

• relative pronouns

• 2nd pronoun refers to same person as 1st

• reflexive pronoun

• expresses possession or ownership

• possessive pronoun

• refers to people, animals, and objects

• intensive pronoun

Answer explanation

Match the following terms and definitions

• refers to people, animals, or objects

• indefinite pronoun

• used to ask questions

• reciprocal pronoun

• indicates something specific

• personal pronoun

• refers to something generally

• demonstrative pronoun

• expresses mutual relationships or action

• interrogative pronoun

Match the following terms and examples

• I, you, she, he, it, they, we, us

• reflexive/intensive pronouns

• mine, yours, his, her, ours, theirs, its

• personal pronouns

• myself, yourself, itself, themselves

• possessive pronouns

• some, many, anyone, none, everybody

• indefinite pronouns

• who, whom, what, which, whose

• interrogative pronouns

Match the following terms and examples

• who, whom, which, what, that

• reciprocal pronouns

• each other, one another

• demonstrative pronouns

• this, that, these, those

• relative pronouns

A poorly timed breath might break a song's flow, interrupting the steady beat it relies on to help time their steps.

a. NO CHANGE

2. b. dancers rely

3. c. they rely

4. d. relied

The continuing popularity of Celtic mouth music is testament to the vitality of them.

• a. NO CHANGE

• b. this musical form.

• c. itself.

• d. one.

If it's not obvious what the pronoun is referring to, you should not use that pronoun.

• True

• False

The antecedent is the word the pronoun is referring to or replacing.

• True

• False

What is the antecedent of "they" in the following sentence?

Instruments were prohibitively expensive and thus scarce in isolated Scottish villages, and in order to fill the void, mouth music emerged and provided residents with the music they wanted for dancing.

On the New York Times home page, I noticed an article about Rafael Leonardo Black, a 64-year-old Clinton Hill artist ​​ (a)   had just been discovered.

• who
• of whom
• which
• whom