Pronoun Rules MCQ Quiz - Objective Question with Answer for Pronoun Rules - Download Free PDF

The correct answer is '2' i.e. my .

Key Points

• The given sentence is asking about the location of a specific mobile phone belonging to the speaker.
• The blank requires a possessive pronoun to indicate ownership of the mobile phone.
• "My" is the possessive pronoun that refers to something belonging to the speaker.

Correct sentence: Have you seen my mobile phone anywhere?

Additional Information

• Possessive Pronouns and Adjectives:
  • my: Used before nouns to show ownership (e.g., my book).
  • mine: Used alone to indicate possession (e.g., The book is mine).
  • its: Used to show possession for objects/animals (e.g., Its cover is torn).
  • their: Used to show possession for plural subjects (e.g., Their books).

Key Points

• The word "their" is a plural possessive pronoun.
• The sentence refers to everyone, which is a collective noun and can be treated as plural in this context.
• Options 1, 3, and 4 are grammatically incorrect in this context.

Additional Information

• Option 1: "his" is incorrect because it assumes gender specificity.
• Option 3: "one's" is incorrect because it does not fit grammatically in this context.
• Option 4: "none of these" is incorrect as "their" is the correct answer.

Key Points

• The pronoun "who" is used as the subject of a verb in a relative clause.
• The sentence requires a subject to complete the relative clause ("won the award"), which refers back to "the one."
• Options 1, 2, and 3 are grammatically incorrect in this context.

Additional Information

• Option 1: "which" is incorrect because "which" is used for things, not people.
• Option 2: "whom" is incorrect because "whom" is used as the object of a verb or preposition, not as the subject.
• Option 3: "whose" is incorrect because "whose" is used to indicate possession, not as the subject of a verb.

Key Points

• The word "those" is used to refer to specific people or things mentioned earlier or that are understood from the context.
• In this context, "those" correctly refers to the freshers among Indian grandparents born in the 1950s and 1960s.

Additional Information

• Option 1: "that" is incorrect because it does not properly refer to the group mentioned.
• Option 2: "these" is incorrect; "these" refers to things close by, not past generations.
• Option 3: "which" is incorrect because it is not used to refer to people in this context.

Key Points

• The pronoun "hers" is the correct possessive pronoun to use in this context.
• The sentence indicates that "she" is taking her own turn, and "hers" is the possessive form that corresponds to "her turn."
• Options 1, 3, and 4 are grammatically incorrect in this context.

Additional Information

• Option 1: "her" is incorrect because it is not possessive in this context.
• Option 3: "herself" is incorrect; it is a reflexive pronoun, not possessive.
• Option 4: "himself" is incorrect because it is the wrong gender and also reflexive, not possessive.

Key Points

• From the given options, the correct choice to fill in the blank is 'hers.'
• We know that a possessive pronoun is used to show something belongs to someone. An apostrophe is not used with a possessive pronoun and it must be used without a noun. 
  • Example: The car parked there is hers.
• ​In the given sentence, the possessive pronoun 'hers' should be used to compare 'my college' with 'someone's college'.
• From the above mentions information, it is clear that 'hers' is the correct answer.

Thus the correct sentence is: My college is farther than hers.

Additional Information

Let's see the use of some possessive pronouns:

• दिए गए विकल्पों में से रिक्त स्थान को भरने का सही विकल्प है 'hers'।
• हम जानते हैं कि किसी के पास कुछ होने के लिए एक possessive pronoun का उपयोग किया जाता है। एक apostrophe का उपयोग एक possessive pronoun के साथ नहीं किया जाता है और इसे noun के बिना उपयोग किया जाना चाहिए।
  • Example: The car parked there is hers.
• दिए गए वाक्य में, वाक्य को सही बनाने के लिए एक possessive pronoun 'hers' का उपयोग किया जाना चाहिए।
• उपरोक्त जानकारी से, यह स्पष्ट है कि 'hers' सही उत्तर है।

The correct answer is 'whom'.

Key Points

• Here, in the given fill-in-the-blank the most appropriate answer is 'whom'.
• 'Whom' is used instead of 'who' as the object of a verb or preposition. ('Whom' preposition या verb के object के रूप में ‘who’ के स्‍थान पर प्रयुक्त होता है) 
  • Example: I met a man with whom I used to work.
• Therefore, as per the points mentioned above, we find that the correct answer is Option 4.
   

Correct Sentence: I have nobody whom I can confide in.

Additional Information

• Let's look at the meanings of other words given in the options:

The correct answer is 'whose'.

Key Points

• The most appropriate word for the given blank is 'whose'.
• The word "whose" is a pronoun used to show possession.
• In this sentence, the "waste hierarchy" possesses the aim of extracting maximum practical benefits from products and generating the minimum amount of waste.
• The other options are not appropriate because "who's" is a contraction of "who is" or "who has," "which" is used to refer to things or animals, and "whom" is used as the object of a verb or preposition.
• Therefore, "whose" is the most appropriate word to use here. 
   

Correct Sentence: Recycling is a key component of modern waste reduction and is the third component of the ‘Reduce, Reuse and Recycle’ waste hierarchy whose aim is to extract the maximum practical benefits from products and to generate the minimum amount of waste.

The correct answer is 'its'.

Key Points 

• The given blank needs a pronoun to represent the butterfly.
• We need to use a possessive pronoun for a noun without a gender.
• Possessive pronouns (also called “absolute” or “strong” possessive pronouns) are mine, yours, his, hers, its, ours, yours, and theirs. 
• 'Its' is the correct word for the given blank as it is a possessive pronoun used for nouns without gender. 
• So, option 2 is the correct answer. 
   

Correct sentence - The butterfly spent the rest of its life unable to fly.

The correct answer is 'who'.

Key Points

• That is used in defining clauses.
  • That का प्रयोग defining clauses में किया जाता है।​
    • Example: My bike that has a broken seat is in the garage.
• Whom is simply the objective case of who, which means that it's the form of who that is in the object position in a sentence.
  • Whom केवल who का objective मामला है, जिसका अर्थ है कि यह वह रूप है जो एक वाक्य में object की स्थिति में है।​
    • Example: He saw the faces of those whom he loved at his birthday celebration. 
• Who is a pronoun, which means that it's used instead of a noun or noun phrase to refer to a noun/noun phrase that has already been mentioned or that does not need to be named specifically.
  • एक सर्वनाम who है, जिसका अर्थ है कि इसका उपयोग संज्ञा या संज्ञा वाक्यांश के बजाय एक संज्ञा / संज्ञा वाक्यांश को संदर्भित करने के लिए किया जाता है जिसका पहले ही उल्लेख किया जा चुका है या जिसे विशेष रूप से नाम देने की आवश्यकता नहीं है।​
    • Example: Who is your father?
• ​Which introduces non-defining clauses.
  • Which का प्रयोग non- defining clauses में किया जाता है।​
    • Example: She seemed more talkative than usual, which was because she was nervous.
• ​​Correct sentence: Prem Chand, who mainly wrote about rural India, was a great Hindi writer.

Additional Information   

• Subject pronouns are pronouns that replace the subject in the sentence. 
• The subject pronouns are we, you, he, she, it, and they.
• Object pronouns do not replace the subject.
• Instead, an object pronoun would replace the object in the sentence.
• The object is the part of the sentence that is being done to, from or with the action.
• The object pronouns are me, you, him, her, it, us, and them.

The correct answer is 'one another'.

Key Points

• We use 'each other' and 'one another' to show that each person in a group of two or more people does something to the others.
• Since the sentence talks about more than two persons, the preferable choice as the filler for the blank will be 'one another.'
• Correct sentence: The team members hugged one another after they had won the competition.

Hence, the correct answer is Option 4.

The correct answer is 'what'.

Key Points

• The given sentence is talking about something unbelievable said by the author.
• 'What' means the thing or things that used in specifying something.
  • Example: We soon believe what we desire.
• Therefore, the most appropriate word to be filled in the blank is the pronoun 'what'.
   

Hence, the correct answer is option 3.

Complete Sentence: Nobody will believe what you have just said.

Mistake Points

• While the words "that" and "what" may seem to fill an identical role, they are very different.
• The word "that" should be used to introduce clauses, whereas "what" should be used when it is the object of the clause we will introduce.
   

Additional Information

• Let us explore the other options:
  • That is a pronoun used in singling out someone or something and ascribing a distinctive feature to them.
  • Who is a pronoun used to introduce a clause giving further information about a person or people previously mentioned.
  • Which is a pronoun used referring to something previously mentioned when introducing a clause giving further information.

Key Points

• The pronouns that connect a clause or phrase to a noun or a pronoun, is called relative pronoun.
• The most common relative pronouns are:
  • “who, whom, whose, which, that”.
• As per the general rule, we use 'which' in relative clauses to refer to animals and things, to introduce defining and non-defining relative clauses.
• Example: 
  • You need to tick the box which says yes.​ ​(correct)
  • You need to tick the box who/whom says yes.​ ​(incorrect)
• ​According to the explanation and example that are given above, ‘which' is the correct choice for the given blank.

Complete sentence: The old telephone which nobody wants has been thrown into the junkyard.
Additional Information

• As per the general rule, we use 'who' in relative clauses to refer to a person (as the verb’s subject).
• Example: 
  • The woman who came to the door left flowers for you. (correct)
  • The woman which came to the door left flowers for you. (incorrect)
• As per the general rule, we use 'whom' in relative clauses to refer to a person (as the verb’s object).
• Example: 
  • I am not sure whom this book belongs to. (correct)
  • I am not sure which this book belongs to. (incorrect)

The correct answer is 'Your'

Key Points

• Before a gerund, we need a possessive adjective of noun or pronoun.
  • Ex: I didn't like his going to New York without me.
• Here, granting is a gerund noun and we need possessive case 'your' before it.
• Hence, option 3 is the correct answer.

The correct answer: I request the favour of your granting me two days' leave.

Additional InformationUsing the possessive before a gerund

• We often put a noun or pronoun in front of a gerund to show who or what is doing the action in the gerund. This noun or pronoun is called the subject of the gerund. In formal writing, the subject of the gerund should be in the possessive form:
  • Your leaving early was a wise decision.
  • We celebrated Gord’s winning the contest.
  • Natalie objected to my borrowing her hockey stick.

The correct answer is 'Who'.

Key Points

• A pronoun is a word that replaces a noun to avoid its repetition.
• A relative pronoun is used to refer to nouns mentioned beforehand, whether they are people, places, things, animals or ideas.
  • Examples: who, which, that, why, what, etc.
• The pronoun 'who' is used to provide more information about a person mentioned previously in a sentence. It is a subject pronoun.
• According to the context of the sentence, the relative clause 'stood first in the class' provides more information about the subject, i.e., 'the girl'.
• So, 'who' fits appropriately in the given blank.

Complete sentence: The girl who stood first in the class is a close friend.

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