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English 8 periodical

Exercise: Directions: Underline the pronouns in each of the following sentences:

1. You and John are the boys who will have to pay for the damage.
2. Mr. Gunsher gave us the record which was just played.
3. She cried loudly, and each of us heard her.
4. They felt flattered by our attention to them.
5. Everyone followed the directions the faculty members had given each of them.
6. She sent them to him as a birthday gift.
7. They collided near the school.
8. Solving the traffic problems taxes the imagination of those who have the responsibility of it.
9. He says anyone who enjoys driving under today’s traffic conditions must be crazy.
10. Some take up a hobby because it is fun.

Identify the kind of pronoun

1) Those are Tom’s.

a. personal pronoun b. relative pronoun c. indefinite pronoun d. interrogative pronoun e.

reflexive pronoun f. demonstrative pronoun

2) They didn’t give themselves a chance to think before beginning the competition.

a. personal pronoun b. relative pronoun c. indefinite pronoun d. interrogative pronoun e.

reflexive pronoun f. demonstrative pronoun

3) The dog that bit her brother belongs to the man down the road.

a. personal pronoun b. relative pronoun c. indefinite pronoun d. interrogative

pronoun e.
reflexive pronoun f. demonstrative pronoun

4) Do you know when the movie starts?

a. personal pronoun b. relative pronoun c. indefinite pronoun d. interrogative

pronoun e. reflexive pronoun f. demonstrative pronoun

5. They think hers is the most interesting submission.

a. personal pronoun b. relative pronoun c. indefinite pronoun d. interrogative pronoun e.
reflexive pronoun f. demonstrative pronoun

6. The audience sat transfixed as the woman who had just won the award fell down the stairs.

a. personal pronoun b. relative pronoun c. indefinite pronoun d. interrogative pronoun e.

reflexive pronoun f. demonstrative pronoun
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7. Someone will need to finish doing the lunch dishes before Don fixes dinner.

a. personal pronoun b. relative pronoun c. indefinite pronoun d. interrogative pronoun e.

reflexive pronoun f. demonstrative pronoun

8. Have you been there before?

a. personal pronoun b. relative pronoun c. indefinite pronoun d. interrogative pronoun e.
reflexive pronoun f. demonstrative pronoun

9. The studio plans to give them each a fruit basket.

a. personal pronoun b. relative pronoun c. indefinite pronoun d. interrogative pronoun e.
reflexive pronoun f. demonstrative pronoun

10. Ted will choose where they going because either of the options works for Alicia.
a. personal pronoun b. relative pronoun c. indefinite pronoun d. interrogative pronoun e.
reflexive pronoun f. demonstrative pronoun

11. As hard as Margaret tries, most of her meal still ends up on her bib.
a. personal pronoun b. relative pronoun c. indefinite pronoun d. interrogative pronoun e.
reflexive pronoun f. demonstrative pronoun

12. Who will be leading the graduation procession this year?

a. personal pronoun b. relative pronoun c. indefinite pronoun d. interrogative pronoun e.
reflexive pronoun f. demonstrative pronoun

13. Clayton yelled to his sister, “Give me that!”

a. personal pronoun b. relative pronoun c. indefinite pronoun d. interrogative pronoun e.

reflexive pronoun f. demonstrative pronoun

14. Before leaving the theater, Benjamin asked himself, “Why did I waste money on this movie?”
a. personal pronoun b. relative pronoun c. indefinite pronoun d. interrogative pronoun e.
reflexive pronoun f. demonstrative pronoun

15. The Sears Tower, which is no longer the tallest building in the world, is still quite impressive.
a. personal pronoun b. relative pronoun c. indefinite pronoun d. interrogative pronoun e.
reflexive pronoun f. demonstrative pronoun

16. Would you slow down on that gallon of ice cream and leave the rest of us some?
a. personal pronoun b. relative pronoun c. indefinite pronoun d. interrogative pronoun e.
reflexive pronoun f. demonstrative pronoun

17. The team is going the restaurant that is closest to the stadium.
a. personal pronoun b. relative pronoun c. indefinite pronoun d. interrogative pronoun e.
reflexive pronoun f. demonstrative pronoun

18. Sarah wears high heels to work every day, but she doesn’t like them.
a. personal pronoun b. relative pronoun c. indefinite pronoun d. interrogative pronoun e.
reflexive pronoun f. demonstrative pronoun
19. The whole thing makes a person wonder who would be foolish enough to jump from a cliff.
a. personal pronoun b. relative pronoun c. indefinite pronoun d. interrogative pronoun e.
reflexive pronoun f. demonstrative pronoun

20. You may want to eat sea cucumber, but Robin does not like it.
a. personal pronoun b. relative pronoun c. indefinite pronoun d. interrogative pronoun e.
reflexive pronoun f. demonstrative pronoun
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Match the vocabulary words with their meaning

A. March the vocabulary words with their meaning:

____f______ 1. alchemist a. harsh sound

_____h______ 2. assuage b. shrewd, skillful in deceiving
________j___ 3. condescended c. a vehicle suspended from poles and carried on the
shoulders by man
_______b____ 4. cunning d. to make milder or less severe
_______a____ 5. dissonance e. rejected with scorn
______i_____ 6. fissured f. a person who attempts to change base metals to
gold
_______c____ 7. palanquin g. a person who foretells events
______g_____ 8. soothsayer h. to quiet or calm
________e___ 9. spurned I split separated
j behaved as if one is putting aside a superior
position

Directions: Some of the verbs in the following sentences agree with their subject(s); some do not. If the verb does not
agree with the subject, underline it and write the correct form above

1) Dr. Jones and her mother teaches music.

2) Neither Dr. Jones nor her mother know how to boil water.
3) There is the list of courses that you were looking for.
4) Either you or your sister have to take notes on the lecture.
5) Both the instructors and the students has left for the day.
6) 6 Spring classes was announced last week.
7) Here are the list of supplies which you ordered.
8) Everybody in this school have taken the shot that prevents measles
9) Some of the students in her class enters the essay contest every year.
10) The women who registered early are going got get extra credit.
11) Mr. and Mrs. Smith has been attending that conference for many years.
12) The students and Dr. Lee prepares the bulletin each month.
13) There goes one of the men who will conduct the research.
14) Some of that paper are going to be presented at the workshop.
15) Each of the children was promised a part in the play.
16) Neither of the women has been late to class this semester.
17) The section of paper which I read most often were missing.
18) Several of the faculty takes roll everyday.
19) Everything in this room fit with the decor of the home.
20) All of the signs along the highway was removed.
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Circle the conjunction or pair of conjunctions in each sentence:

1. Lyle chose both steak and salad for his dinner.

2. I chose neither steak nor salad for my dinner.

3. Either you or he can drive Dad to the train station tomorrow morning.

4. The panda wanted to eat, for he was hungry.

5. Peanut butter and jelly is Rex’s favorite sandwich.

6. Not only the girls but also the boys will be invited to the assembly.

7. Sara did not know whether to swing at the ball or take the pitch.

8. Mark would like to go, but he cannot.

9. Rich likes the food at this restaurant, yet he seldom eats here.

10. Run with him or her

Underline the correct coordinator:

SUBJECT-VERB AGREEMENT EXERCISE 1 Direction: Circle the correct verb in each of the
sentences below. Check your answers on the following page.

1. Your friend (talk-talks) too much.

2. The man with the roses (look-looks) like your brother.

3. The women in the pool (swim-swims) well.

4. Bill (drive-drives) a cab.

5. The football players (run-runs) five miles every day.

6. That red-haired lady in the fur hat (live-lives) across the street.

7. He (cook-cooks) dinner for his family.

8. The boys (walk-walks) to school every day.

9. The weather on the coast (appear-appears) to be good this weekend.

10. The center on the basketball team (bounce-bounces) the ball too high.
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complete each of the following quotations or expression by choosing the correct infinitive from the box.

to rise to catch to make to yield

be to give to kill to ascend
to keep up to render to die to keep
to err to bitch to forgive to cast t
to build to turn over to save to lead

1) ___To err________ is human; to ___to forgive__________

2) is divine
3) He promises _____to turn over______ a new leaf.
4) It’s easier to descend than _____ to ascend_______.
5) Sally loves _________to build__________________ castles
6) ____to keep______________ the wolf away from the door.
7) It takes two _______to make _________ a quarrel.
8) Set a thief ___________to catch______________ a their
9) No one in the crowd wanted _______to render______ the first stone.
10) _____________to kill_____ two birds with one stone.
11) The brothers don’t want _____to cast_______ the first stone.
12) _to yield _________________ is the rest.
13) It is better ____to give__________ than to receive.
14) Mother reminds me to save____ for a rainy days.
15) Let bygones ______ be bygones.

Combine each pair of sentences into one using without and the gerund form of the verb.

1) Don’t speak. Think first.

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2) Don’t decide. Consider all sides of a question.

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3) Give your decision. Do not fear anyone.

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4) Do your assigned ask. Do not complain.

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5) Do your work. do not ask for help.

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Encircle the correct pronoun

1) Do (they, them) believe whatever (them, their) teacher says?

2) “Your Majesty promised (me, mine) a house, “ Anna tells (you, him).
3) Has the king made good (he, his) promise to (her, hers)?
4) “(I, Me) will hear no more of this promise,” says the King.
5) Anna and (his, her) son came to Siam a year ago.
6) “(You, Your) stay in the palace,” the King tells (she, her)
7) The children sang ( their , theirs) school song as (they, them) lined up.
8) Anna shows (he, him) and (her, his) wives and children the movement of snow.
9) The children refused to believe in snow because (you, they ) have not seen (it, them)
10) “(We, Us) believe in schoolteacher,”the children chorused as 9she, they) threatens to leave (their them )country(

Rephrase the following sentences by changing the underlined nouns to pronouns in the objective case

1) Is the medal for Ana?

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2) Have you given the new students copies of the school rules and regulations?
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3) Who taught the boys that song ?

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4) Our actions must be strange to Roy and Oscar.

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5) The catechist taught Jose the morning prayers.
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6) The principal sent for Mr. Cruz and Miss Pecson.

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7) He offered Mario and me some cookies

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8) We saw the accident yesterday.

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9) The noise came from behind Terry and Marie.

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10) The staff artist drew the editorial cartoon.
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