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Pronoun Study Guide

Underline the pronouns for each sentence. Label each sentence pronoun objective, nominative, or possessive.

1. After you finish the language arts homework, you can go out and play.

2. You and I have to finish the quiz and read Equiano.

3. Mrs.Pinkerton gets mad at them when they talk in the back of the classroom.

4. Coming home from school, we began to finish Mrs. Pinkertons vocabulary homework.

5. Fredrick Douglass was born 1818, and he became a slave at age 7.

6. Deuk took out his camera without any hesitation and started to snap the trees at North Gwinnett High.

7. Bob and Carol purposely broke their pencils, so their tests were omitted.

8. Sleeping during class the teacher was yelling at him.

9. Technology has changed our lives because kids can access textbooks on the schools website.

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10. DJ was too busy on his phone and ignored all signs of work.

11. Joe and Bob are running track today. They are trying to get ready for the tournament.

12. The project we are working on for Language Arts is quite fun.

13. The coaching for the NGHS football team is he.

14. While in Mrs. Pinkertons class, the group decided to play flappy bird instead of finishing their work!

15. While in class, we were awed by the amount of snow that fell during 6th period.

16. Mark Twain became a well-known author because he captivated his readers with realism.

17. Mrs. Pinkertons dream, other than to work at North Gwinnett, was for her to become an actress on Broadway.

18. The humor in this pronoun study guide is funny to us.

19. School is a necessary aspect for us to become a successful generation in the world.

20. If I were the principle of North Gwinnett High School my school would not have school after it snowed.

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Answers and Reasons

1. You is the pronoun in the sentence. You is a nominative pronoun because it is shown to
be doing the action (finish the homework; play) in the sentence.

2. There are two pronoun answers in the sentence. You and I are both nominative pronouns
because they are both doing the action (finish the quiz) in the sentence.

3. The pronoun in the sentence is them. Them is an objective pronoun because it is seen to
act as the object in the pronoun. Also, it receives the action from the sentence verb (mad).

4. The pronoun in the sentence is we. We is a nominative pronoun in the sentence where it
does the action (finish homework).

5. The pronoun in the sentence is he. He in this particular sentence is a nominative pronoun
as it is doing the action (became). He in this sentence is not a possessive pronoun due to the fact that it does not show possession of anything.

6. The pronoun in the sentence is his. His is a possessive pronoun in the sentence because it
shows possession of an object (camera).

7. The pronoun in the sentence is their. In the sentence, there is seen as a possessive
pronoun because it shows possession of objects (pencils).

8. The pronoun in the sentence is him. In the sentence, him is shown to be an objective
pronoun because it is receiving the action (yelling) and acts as the object of the sentence.

9. The pronoun in the sentence is our. In the sentence, our is a possessive pronoun where it
describes the possession over something (lives).

10. The pronoun in the sentence is his. In the sentence, his is a possessive pronoun because it
shows possession of an object (phone).

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11. The pronoun in the sentence is they. In the sentence, they is a nominative pronoun
because it is doing the action (get ready).

12. The pronoun in the sentence is we. In the sentence, we is a nominative pronoun which is
doing the action (working).

13. The pronoun in the sentence is he. In the sentence, he is a nominative pronoun because it
is doing the action (coaching).

14. The pronoun in the sentence is their. In the sentence, their is a possessive pronoun which
describes the possession of objects (work).

15. The pronoun in the sentence is we. In the sentence, we is a nominative pronoun which
shows an action (awed) being done.

16.The pronouns in the sentence are he and his. In the sentence, he is a nominative pronoun
where it is doing the action (captivated). His is a possessive pronoun in the sentence because it shows the possession of something (readers).

17.The pronoun in the sentence is her. In the sentence, her is an objective pronoun because it
acts as the object in the sentence.

18.The pronoun in the sentence is us. In the sentence, us is an objective pronoun because it
acts as the object in the sentence.

19.The pronoun in the sentence is us. In the sentence, us is an objective pronoun because it
acts as the object in the sentence.

20.The pronoun in the sentence is my. In the sentence, my is a possessive pronoun

describing the possession of something (school).