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English 202 | Pellauer
Grammar: Pronoun Case Review

Directions[1]: Choose the correct pronoun for each sentence below. Read the entire sentence before making your choice.

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1. Five of ( we, us, ourselves) took a cab to the play.

2. Are you and ( they, them, themselves) attending the meeting.

3. No one is more concerned about the matter than ( she, her, herself).

4. ( Who, Whom) can I go out with tonight?

5. Margaret and ( I, me, myself) hope to be roommates.

6. The committee told Smith and ( they, them, themselves) to write a new resolution.

7. Is he the one for ( who, whom) the note is intended?

8. We discovered that it was ( they, them, themselves) who started the fire.

9. Everyone asked Joan and ( he, him, himself) to speak at the convention.

10. A person as young as ( she, her, herself) should not be given too much responsibility.

Grammar: Pronoun Agreement Review
Directions[2]: Choose the correct pronoun for each sentence below. Read the entire sentence before making your choice.

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1. Fans cheered the baseball team as ( it they) won the last game of the season.
2. Mathematics had lost ( its their) appeal for me by the time I was in the tenth grade.
3. Neither the boss nor the employees could find ( his or her their) tools.
4. Some of the salt spilled from ( its their) container onto the kitchen floor
5. Everybody should have ( his or her their) house insured.
6. McDonalds usually provides ( its their) customers with adequate parking.
7. Ducks and geese use ( its their) webbed feet to glide through the water.
8. A number of new voters are casting ( his or her their) ballots for the first time.
9. The club members expressed ( his or her their) opinions about the sale of the property.
10. One of the lab rats escaped from ( its their) flimsy cage.

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Answers:

1.  us

2.  they

3.  she

4.  whom

5.  I

6.  them

7.  whom

8.  they

9.  him

10. she

Answers:

1.  it

2.  its

3.  their

4.  its

5.  his or her

6.  its

7.  their

8.  their

9.  their

10. its

[1] Source: http://www.towson.edu/ows/exerciseprocase.htm

[2] Source: http://wwwnew.towson.edu/ows/exercisep-aagr3.htm