English Grammar Drills

Post-Noun Modifiers 45
The tall young man in the yellow jacket is my cousin.
He is my cousin.
There are four third-person pronouns. Here is the complete list in both subject and object
form:
Subject form
he
she
it
they
Object form
him
her
it
them
All noun phrases, no matter what role they play in a sentence and no matter what their internal
structure is, can be replaced by one of the eight third-person pronouns listed above. Here is
an example using each third-person pronoun:
He:
She:
It:
They:
Him:
Her:
It:
Them:
A small boy who looked about five years old came into the room.
He came into the room.
My sister who goes to school here is getting her driver’s license.
She is getting her driver’s license.
The TV mounted in the back of the room suddenly went blank.
It suddenly went blank.
All of the employees at my company belong to unions.
They belong to unions.
Did you see a tall man dressed in a black jacket?
Did you see him?
Bring a menu for the young lady seated over there.
Bring a menu for her.
I didn’t get the last question on the exam.
I didn’t get it.
Please ask all the people who are waiting in the hall to come in.
Please ask them to come in.
Exercise 4.1
Underline all the noun phrases (except ones that are just pronouns by themselves) in the following
sentences. Show that your answer is correct by writing the appropriate third-person pronoun
above the noun phrase that you have underlined.
It
The book you asked for finally came in.