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Interrogative Pronouns

Interrogative pronouns are used for asking questions.

Read the following sentences.

Who are you? Which is your school?
O O
Whom did you teach? What do you read?
O O
In the above sentences, the words who, whom, which and what are interrogative
pronouns because they are used for asking questions.

Practice Time 3

Underline the interrogative pronouns in the following sentences.

1. What did you say?

2. Which is your cup of tea?

3. Which is your aunt’s house?
4. Who is he?

5. Which is your coat?

6. What do you want?
7. What are you reading?

Relative Pronouns

A relative pronoun as the name suggests is a pronoun that refers to a noun or a pronoun.
The noun or pronoun that it refers to is called its antecedent.

Read the following sentences.

Those who have submitted their notebooks can go early.
O
The animals that live in the forest are known as wild animals.
O
The words who and that are relative pronouns. Who refers to ‘those’ and that refers
to ‘animals’. Here ‘those’ and ‘animals’ are antecedents of who and that respectively.

That, which, who, whom, and whose are other relative pronouns.

Relative pronouns are used to introduce relative clauses (adjective clauses).

Practice Time 4 Pronouns

Underline the relative pronouns in the given sentences.

1. I know the boy who is standing there.

2. This is the man who won the match last year.
3. The bird which you saw in the zoo is an African bird.
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