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Basic Practice Exercises - Pronouns
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1
From the options below, identify the type of pronoun used in the following sentence:
The blue scarf hanging around Carl's neck is mine.
A)Personal
B)Relative
C)Indefinite
D)Demonstrative
2
From the options below, identify the type of pronoun used in the following sentence:
The family has always trusted us.
A)Personal
B)Relative
C)Indefinite
D)Demonstrative
3
From the options below, identify the type of pronoun used in the following sentence:
The players have only themselves to blame.
A)Personal
B)Relative
C)Indefinite
D)Reflexive
4
From the options below, identify the type of pronoun used in the following sentence:
The child appears to be happy, but she is not.
A)Personal
B)Relative
C)Indefinite
D)Demonstrative
5
From the options below, identify the type of pronoun used in the following sentence:
The French had feared a great defeat, but at the Battle of Marengo, victory was theirs.
A)Personal
B)Relative
C)Indefinite
D)Demonstrative
6
From the options below, identify the type of pronoun used in the following sentence:
Victoria and he are getting married next fall.
A)Personal
B)Relative
C)Indefinite
D)Demonstrative
7
From the options below, identify the type of pronoun used in the following sentence:
These obligations must be met by the end of the month, or the bank will foreclose.
A)Personal
B)Relative
C)Indefinite
D)Demonstrative
8
From the options below, identify the type of pronoun used in the following sentence:
Isn't that a brown bear coming over the hill?
A)Personal
B)Relative
C)Indefinite
D)Demonstrative
9
From the options below, identify the type of pronoun used in the following sentence:
At the present time, show business and technology have combined to create sensational special effects, which provide little of substance.
A)Personal
B)Relative
C)Indefinite
D)Demonstrative
10
From the options below, identify the type of pronoun used in the following sentence:
"Opera's golden tenor" is the title that Time magazine gave Luciano Pavarotti in 1979.
A)Personal
B)Relative
C)Indefinite
D)Reflexive
11
From the options below, identify the type of pronoun used in the following sentence:
Someone on a television documentary claimed that science can, in fact, explain the flight of bumblebees.
A)Personal
B)Relative
C)Indefinite
D)Demonstrative
12
From the options below, identify the type of pronoun used in the following sentence:
Many Americans, having lived through the Great Depression, never recovered their sense of security.
A)Personal
B)Relative
C)Indefinite
D)Demonstrative
13
From the options below, identify the type of pronoun used in the following sentence:
In attempting to get away from the police, the suspect shot himself in the foot.
A)Personal
B)Relative
C)Indefinite
D)Reflexive.







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