Pronouns Exercises with Answers for class 8

Pronouns Exercises with Answers for class 8 and worksheet with solution from the book Elementary English Grammar for CBSE and ICSE students.

Correct Pronouns

Possessive Pronoun or a Possessive Adjective

Bold the Pronoun

Exercise 3.3 Bold the Pronouns in the following sentences and down their kinds in the space given. One has been done for you :-

1. I shut the gate myself. ____________________
2. She hurt herself. ______________________
3. Those books belong to him. __________________
4. What would you were him? ________________
5. That house is your. ________________
6. Everyone in our class comes to school early. _________________
7. Both of them are happy with their results. ________________
8. Many are poor only a few are rich. ____________________
9. To whom did you give my letter yesterday? __________________
10. This is the man whose son was kidnapped yesterday? _____________
11. Here is the book which I told you about. ________
12. He is one of the greatest leaders that have ever been born in India. ______________

Answers:
1. I shut the gate myself.
I – Personal Pronoun, myself – Reflexive Pronoun
2. She hurt herself.
She – Personal Pronoun, herself – Reflexive Pronoun
3. Those books belong to him.
him – Personal Pronoun
4. What would you were him?
Him – Personal Pronoun
5. That house is yours.
That – Demonstrative Pronoun, yours – Possessive Pronoun
6. Everyone in our class comes to school early.
Everyone – Indefinite Pronoun
7. Both of them are happy with their results.
Both – Distributive Pronoun, their – Possessive Pronoun
8. Many are poor only a few are rich.
Many – Indefinite Pronoun, a few – Indefinite Pronoun
9. To whom did you give my letter yesterday?
Whom – Interrogative Pronoun, my – Possessive Pronoun
10. This is the man whose son was kidnapped yesterday.
Whose – Relative Pronoun
11. Here is the book which I told you about.
Which – Relative Pronoun
12. He is one of the greatest leaders that have ever been born in India.
He – Personal Pronoun, that – Relative Pronoun

Correct Answer

Correct Verb

Join Sentences

Exercise 3.7 Join together each of the following pairs of sentences by means of a Relative Pronoun :-
who, whom, whose, which, that

1. This is the man I trusted him.
2. I am the person you sent for me.
3. Here s the book. I told you about it.
4. This is the road. It leads to the station.
5. He does his best. He should be praised.
6. The thieves were caught. They had stolen cash and jewellery.
7. Rabindranath Tagore was in born in Bengal. He literary works are famous.
8. The boys thanked me sincerely. I had helped them solve the problem.
9. My watch was stolen yesterday. I have not found it yet.
10. They met the woman. Her children were hurt in the road accident.

Answers:

1. This is the man whom I trusted.
2. I am the person whom you sent for
3. Here is the book which I told you about.
4. This is the road that leads to the station.
5. He does his best, which should be praised.
6. The thieves who had stolen cash and jewellery were caught.
7. Rabindranath Tagore, whose literary works are famous, was born in Bengal.
6. The boys thanked me sincerely, whom I had helped solve the problem.
9. My watch, which was stolen yesterday, has not been found yet.
10. They met the woman whose children were hurt in the road accident.

Exercise 3.8 The following sentences are wrongly constructed. Improve them by putting who and which immediately after the nouns to which they refer :-

1. I sold my house last week which was double-storeyed.
2. The Principal punished all the truants who was vey strict.
3. The stranger surprised us who came to our house yesterday.
4. I noticed the new painting hanging on the wall which belongs to my friend.
5. The girl is my sister who wrote the story of this play.