Answer:
Questions 1–9: Write down the pronouns you find in each sentence. Indicate whether each pronoun is personal, interrogative, indefinite, demonstrative, or relative. (Classify possessive pronouns as personal pronouns.)
1. Any of several methods could be used to solve his problems.
2. Those are unnecessary actions.
3. That will be taken care of later.
4. Somebody forgot his or her raincoat.
5. Which did you give to them?
6. The causes for which John fought are now dead.
7. What are you planning to do now?
8. I prefer doing that to making a speech before them.
9. Bill asked, “Whose is that?”
Questions 10–16: In the following sentences, identify the antecedent for each pronoun.
10. William asked for his coffee to be brought to the conference room.
11. The music was so loud that it hurt our ears.
12. Thomas and Christine forgot to bring their umbrellas to work.
13. Since Grandma Helen was ten years old, she had been writing letters.
14. The rain pounded on the roof and it leaked through the cracks.
15. His messenger bag was so full that Randy could not fit another file in it.
16. Mr. Cooper told his students that they were responsible for their grades.
Explanation:
Any (indefinite); his (personal)
Those (demonstrative)
That (demonstrative)
Somebody (indefinite); his (personal); her (personal)
Which (interrogative); you (personal); them (personal)
which (relative)
What (interrogative); you (personal)
I (personal); that (demonstrative); them (personal)
Whose (interrogative); that (demonstrative)
10. William/his
11. music/it
12. Thomas and Christine/their
13. Grandma Helen/she
14. rain/it
15. his/Randy
16. Mr. Cooper/his; students/they/their
