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Warm Up Questions

What job do you want to do


in the future?

What are you going to do at the


weekend?

What do you usually do


after school?

Who is your favourite teacher and


why?
Personal Pronouns
We use subject pronouns as the subject
of a verb. For example:
Subject Object
- I like your scarf!
- He runs 10km every day. I Me
- They go to school.
You You
We use object pronouns as the object
of a verb. For example:
He Him
- Can you call him? She Her
- The teacher helps us if we don’t understand.
It It
- We go swimming with them.
We Us
We also use them after prepositions.
For example: They Them
My friend Robert is waiting for you.
Pronouns in Questions
We use ‘who’ to ask about people. For
“Who is she?”
example:

We use ‘where’ to ask about places. For


“Where is the concert?”
example:

We use ‘when’ to ask about time and


“When is the exam?”
days. For example:

We use ‘whose’ to ask about


“Whose is this ball?”
possession. For example:

We use ‘which’ to ask someone to


“Which t-shirt do you want?”
choose something. For example:

“What worksheet did you do today?”


We can also use ‘what’ or ‘which’ with
nouns. For example:
“Which colour is your favourite?”
Indefinite Pronouns
Here are some indefinite pronouns in English.

anyone everyone someone no-one


anybody everybody somebody nobody
anything everything something nothing

We use pronouns ending in -thing for things, and


pronouns ending in -one and -body for people.

When we refer back to an indefinite pronoun, we


usually use a plural verb form. For example:
“Everyone was tired after the exam.
They all went home to relax.”
Practice Makes Perfect
Choose the correct answers to complete the sentences.

1 Hello!
Hello! My
My name
name isis Shana
Shana and
and ________
I am your am
newyour
teacher.
new teacher.

A me B I

2 Julia
Juliainvited
invited20
20people
peopleto
toher
herbirthday
birthdayparty
partyand
and________
everyone came.
came.

A everyone B everything

3 ________
Whose are
arethose
thosesandwiches?
sandwiches?

A who B whose

4 Alvin called me and asked me to wait for ________


him. .

A him B us Click to Reveal Answers


Reflexive Pronouns
Here are some reflexive pronouns in English.

singular myself yourself himself herself itself

plural ourselves yourselves themselves

We use a reflexive pronoun as a direct object when the


object is the same as the subject of the verb.

For example: “The young child dressed himself on Sunday.”


“My cousin blamed herself for what happened”.

We can use reflexive pronouns with most transitive verbs, but


the following are the most common ones: hurt, introduce,
blame, amuse, cut, dry, help, teach, prepare.
Relative Pronouns
The following are relative pronouns in English: who, whom, which, that, whose.

We use ‘who’, ‘whose’ and ‘whom’ for people, ‘which’ for things, and
‘that’ for people and things.

Here are some examples:

- Jack, who is 89, is my neighbour.


- The book that I’ve just read is by a famous author.
- The friends that we met in Portugal are really nice.
- The food which my mum made was cold.

We can leave out the pronoun ‘that’ if it is the object of the relative clause.
E.g. This is the homework that Sam did. / This is the homework Sam did.
More Practice
Read the text and fill in the gaps with the words below.

That herself which that herself who

Last week wasn’t the best week for Carlota. On Monday, when she was making
food for her brother, she cut herself
________with
with
a kitchen
a kitchen
knife!
knife!
In the
In the
end,
end,
sheshe
soup
soup
that
____had
she shemade
had made
for him
fortasted
him tasted
awful,awful,
so shesohad
shetohad
throw
to throw
it in the
it in
bin.
theOn
bin.
Tuesday
On
Tuesday
and Wednesday
and Wednesday
she was studying
she was studying
for her exams,
for herbut
exams,
then she
but realised
then shethe
realised
booksthe
books _____
which she was
she
using
was were
usingthe
were
ones
thefrom
oneslast
fromyear,
lastsoyear,
she so
hadshe
to had
teach
to herself
teach all
_______
the content
allagain.
the content
She did
again.
her exams
She didonher
Thursday
exams on
butThursday
she was so
butworried,
she wasso
soher
worried,who
friends so her
were
friends
sat next
_____
to her
were
gave
sather
next
a hug.
to herIt gave
turned
herout
a hug.
she’dItactually
turned out
passed
she’d
her exams
actually
thatpassed
she was
hersoexams
nervous
_____
about!
she was so nervous about!
Click to Reveal Answers
Correct the error in each
Correct the Errors sentence below.

1 My friend where is from Scotland is coming to see me next week.

My friend who is from Scotland is coming to see me next week.

2 Jack and Jill taught ourselves Italian last year.

Jack and Jill taught themselves Italian last year.

3 Our homework was too easy for it, so we completed it in five minutes.

Our homework was too easy for us, so we completed it in five minutes.

4 The school who is on the hill was built in 1879.

The school that is on the hill was built in 1879.

5 Mrs. Brown, the next headteacher, introduced itself to us.

Mrs. Brown, the new headteacher, introduced herself Click


to us.to Reveal Answers

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