CAMBRIDGE LOWER SECONDARY ENGLISH 9: LANGUAGE WORKSHEET 2.

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Language worksheet 2.2

In this worksheet, you will focus on pronouns.
Study this table of different types of pronouns and their uses.

Personal pronouns
First person: refer to the speaker(s) or I, me, mine, myself, we, us, our, ours,
writer(s) ourselves
Second person: refer to the audience you, your, yours, yourself, yourselves
Third person: refer to anyone/anything else she, her, hers, herself, he, him, his, himself,
it, its, itself
they, them, their, theirs, themselves
Other types of pronoun
Possessive pronouns: communicate my, your, his, her, its, our, their
ownership/possession
Reflexive pronouns: connect to a noun or myself, herself, himself, yourself, itself,
pronoun in the clause ourselves, themselves
Interrogative pronouns: used to ask who, whom, which, what, whose
questions about nouns
Demonstrative pronouns: communicate this, that, these, those
distance or nearness
Indefinite pronouns: communicate an some, any, many, each, much, few, none, one
unspecific meaning someone, somebody, something,
anyone, anybody, anything
Relative pronouns: link relative clauses to who, whom, which, that, whose
head nouns in a phrase

1 Underline all the pronouns in this text. Annotate the text to indicate what type of pronoun each
one is – for example, he (personal, third person).
Praveen said he was going to take his car to the mechanic and ask her if she could have a
look at its engine while he went to do some shopping. Before he could do that, I called
round to his house so he asked me to look at it instead because he knew I was good with
cars and looked after mine well.

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2 Read these examples. Underline the pronouns in each example. For example:
Mrs Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.
a They have coffee mugs with ‘his’ and ‘hers’ on them.
b The students seemed eager. Some of them had brought laptops to the lecture.
c This is the most expensive bag in the store.
d Who is the man standing over there?
e You will have to ask him that yourself.
f This isn’t your book? Whose is it then?
g There are lots of different tools in this drawer. Which one do you need?
h Anyone interested in going to see a film?
i He got 100 per cent. What do you think of that?
j The volunteers haven’t turned up. We will have to do the work ourselves.

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