English Grammar Drills

Pronouns 69
Object
Him:
Her:
It:
Them:
I signaled to the waiter who had taken our order.
I signaled to him.
I signaled to the waitress who had taken our order.
I signaled to her.
Did you see the new car parked outside the restaurant?
Did you see it?
The new telescope can detect planets that are circling
distant suns.
The new telescope can detect them.
Exercise 5.1
Write the appropriate third-person pronoun above the underlined noun phrase. Use he/she or
him/her for persons whose gender is not specified.
He/She
The taxi cab driver had a GPS system in the cab.
1. The Mississippi river system drains the central United States.
2. She really enjoyed photographing wild animals in their natural habitat.
3. All the senior executives of the company were called to a special meeting.
4. My brother intends to continue to run the farm that we inherited from our parents.
5. The screenwriter for that movie has been nominated for an Academy Award.
6. The whole family plans to celebrate our parents’ fiftieth wedding anniversary in July.
7. Both of my roommates at school come from Alabama.
8. The class interviewed the reporter who wrote the series on judicial misconduct.
9. The population of North Dakota is one of the few in the United States that is actually falling.
10. It is hospital policy to get blood samples from all patients with unexplained fevers.
11. The Southern Cross is the best-known constellation in the Southern Hemisphere.
12. I will vote for the candidate that has expressed the greatest concern for health costs.
13. My husband and his friends have taken the kids camping this weekend.
14. A good portfolio requires a mixture of both stocks and bonds.
15. The weather reporter on the 10 o’clock news is predicting more snow this weekend.