8th Class English Pronouns Practice Exercise

Write the kind of pronoun of underlined word.  

  She has meticulously worked out on her plan.

Answer: Personal Pronoun.  

  The man whom you talked is a dogmatic person.

Answer: Relative Pronoun.  

  That is the monument built by the Mughals in fifteenth century.

Answer: Demonstrative Pronoun.  

  Which of these pets is yours?

Answer: Possessive Pronoun    

Choose the kind of pronoun of each underlined word.  

  Whom do you like to favour in this election?

(A) Personal Pronoun                                   

(B) Reflexive Pronoun

(C) Demonstrative Pronoun                       

(D) Possessive Pronoun

(E) Interrogative Pronoun

Answer: (e)

Explanation: In the underlined word 'Whom' has been used to ask a question. So the underlined word 'Whom' is Interrogative Pronoun.  

  I myself wrote the story with a great precision.

(A) Reflexive Pronoun                                  

(B) Personal Pronoun

(C) Demonstrative Pronoun                       

(D) Possessive Pronoun

(E) Interrogative Pronoun

Answer: (A)

Explanation: In the underlined word 'myself' has been used as object of the verb when the doer and the receiver of the action is same. So the underlined word 'myself' is Reflexive Pronoun.    

• Personal Pronoun is used for a person or a thing.
• Demonstrative Pronouns: The pronoun used to point out the object we talk about is called Demonstrative Pronouns.
• Interrogative Pronoun: The pronoun which is used to ask a question is called Interrogative Pronoun.
• Reflexive Pronouns: The pronoun which is used to show the effect of the action done by the subject on itself.
• Possessive Pronoun: The pronoun which shows possession is called Possessive Pronoun.
• Distributive Pronoun: The pronoun which is used as distributer of a person or thing is called Distributive Pronoun.
• Indefinite Pronoun: The pronoun which is used to refer to a noun in general way is called Indefinite Pronoun.
• Emphatic or Emphasizing Pronoun: The pronoun which is used to emphasize a noun or a pronoun is called
• Emphatic or Emphasizing Pronoun.