1. AGRICULTURE HIGH SCHOOL
Agriculture, Midsayap, Cotabato
Name: __________________________________ Date: ______________
Year and Section: _________________________ Score: _____________
Subject: English 9
Activity No. 1-27
Activity Title: Pronouns: Its Kind
Objective: To identify the types of pronouns (demonstrative, relative, interrogative, and
indefinite ).
Pronouns are words that stand for nouns or for words that take place of nouns.
Demonstrative pronoun directs attention to a specific person, place, or thing.
DEMONSTRATIVE PRONOUNS
SINGULAR PLURAL
this, that these, those
Demonstrative pronouns come either before or after their antecedents.
BEFORE: That is my first painting.
AFTER: The child held the propeller and a wing. These were all that was left of the model
airplane.
Relative pronoun begins a subordinate clause and connects it to another idea in the sentence.
RELATIVE PRONOUNS
that which who whom whose
INDEPENDENT CLAUSE SUBORDINATE CLAUSE
We will go to the store That advertised a sale.
The poet thanked the group From whom she received the award.
We saw the person Whose catch had won the prize.
Interrogative pronoun is used to begin a question.
INTERROGATIVE PRONOUNS
what which who whom whose
Ex.) Who knocked on the door?
What did Ysabelle decide to do?
Which of books did Randy read?
Indefinite pronouns refer to people, places, or things, often without specifying which
ones. It requires no specific antecedents.
INDEFINITE PRONOUNS
Singular Plural Both
another everyone nothing both all
anybody everything one few any
anyone little other many more
anything much somebody others most
each neither someone several none
either nobody something some
everybody no one
Indefinite pronouns may or may not have antecedents.
SPECIFIC ANTECEDENT: Several of the guests were late.
NO SPECIFIC ANTEEENT: Everyone ate everything offered.
ANTECEDENTS are nouns (or words that take the place of nouns) for which pronouns stand.

2. LET’S PRACTICE! Underline the pronoun in each of the following sentences. Then label as
demonstrative, relative, interrogative or indefinite.
1. He found the money that he had lost.
2. Nothing is impossible to God.
3. That is the house I would like to own.’
4. Mine is green. Whose is lavender?
5. Many are called but few are chosen.
TASK 1: Write the pronoun in each of the following sentences. Then label as demonstrative,
relative, interrogative or indefinite.
Ex.) What is known about planetary rings?
What- interrogative
(1)Who first discovered rings around the planet? (2) In the early 1600’s, Galileo, who
was an Italian astronomer, first saw rings around Saturn. (3) With a small telescope, Galileo
could not see clearly and thought that things that appeared were satellites. (4) Later, other
astronomers, using more powerful telescopes, saw these were rings. (5) In 1980 scientists
discovered the true nature of the rings, which are actually made up of thousands of pieces of
ice. (6) Which of the other planets are known to have rigs? (7) Uranus has nine thin rings,
fainter than those of Saturn. (8) Jupiter’s one thin ring, which appears to be made of rock
fragments, was discovered by the Jupiter 1 space probe in 1980. (9) Who knows why the rings
around planets are always parallel to the planet’s equator? (10) this and other questions may
be answered by future space probes.
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