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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.

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

SUBJECT-VERB EXERCISE IV Directions: Circle the correct verb in each of the sentences
below.

1. Mumps (is-are) one of the most uncomfortable diseases.

2. One hundred dollars (is-are) not a lot of money to some people.
3. She (doesn’t-don’t) look very well today.
4. Twenty minutes (is-are) the amount of time it takes me to get home from work.
5. It (doesn’t-don’t) seem so cold today.
6. Gymnastics (is-are) easy for Angela.
7. Interesting news (is-are) what sells our paper.
8. A pound of cookies (cost-costs) about a dollar.
9. They (doesn’t-don’t) think they’ll win the game tonight.
10. He (don’t-doesn’t) speak very well.

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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SUBJECT-VERB AGREEMENT EXERCISE II

Directions: Circle the correct verb in the sentences below. Check your answers on the bottom of this
page.

1. Each of the girls (look-looks) good on skis.

2. Everybody (was-were) asked to remain quiet.

3. Neither of the men (is-are) here yet.

4. (Is-Are) each of the girls ready to leave?

5. Several of the sheep (is-are) sick.

6. Some members of the faculty (is-are) present.

7. Nobody in the class (has-have) the answer.

8. Each of the girls (observe-observes) all the regulations.

9. All of the milk (is-are) gone.

10. Most of the seats (was-were) taken.

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)