MANSUKHBHAI KITHARI NATIONAL SCHOOL

GRADE - 6
GRAMMAR HANDOUT
MONTH – JUNE
TOPIC – PRONOUNS
(a) We may say—
Sheela is absent because Sheela is ill.
But it is better to avoid the repetition of the noun Sheela, and say Sheela is
absent because she is ill.
Definition. A word that is used to replace a noun is called pronoun. (The word
‘Pronoun’ means ‘for a noun’.)

(b) If the number of noun is singular, male person, take the pronoun - ‘he, him,
his, himself. Persons of the female take, ‘she, her, hers, herself. Non-living
things are referred to by ‘it, its and itself.’

(c) If the number of noun is plural, persons of either (male or female) as also the
non¬living things, are referred to by ‘they, them, their, theirs, themselves’.

(d) An animal is generally referred to by the neuter ‘it’.

For animals which occur in a story as characters or the animals which are
thought of as members of the family, he, she etc may be used.
We have a monkey in the house.
Have you seen him ?

e) The words ‘his’, ‘her’ and others derived from them are called possessive
adjectives. They must agree in gender with the words which they refer back.
The gender of these possessive adjectives has nothing to do with the nouns they
follow :
Ram gave a present to his mother. (not her mother)
Sita gave a present to her brother as well as to her sister. (not his brother or his
sister)
The cycle was restored to its owner. (not his or her owner)
Look at the following table. It will help you to use correct pronoun or
possessive adjective.
a person, man, boy, everybody he, him, his, himself

girl, every girl, woman, every woman she, her, hers, herself

a thing, an animals it, its, itself

one one, one’s, oneself

all plurals (men, women, animals, they, them, their, theirs,

people, things) themselves

Exercise 1

Fill in the blanks with suitable pronouns.

1. Ram and ………….. were present.
2. Can you sing as well as ………….. ?
3. Wait for Mohan and ………….. .
4. It was ………….. that gave you the alarm.
5. We are not so poor as ………….. .

Exercise 2

Insert his, her, its or their in the blank spaces.

1. The poor boy has lost ………….. mother.
2. I am two years older than ………….. brother.
3. Ram has taken ………….. wife to the doctor.
4. The manager asked the visitors to wait outside ………….. office.
5. Have you seen ………….. pen anywhere ?

Exercise 3

Fill in the blanks with correct pronouns.

1. We scored as many runs as ………….. .
2. Let you and ………….. try.
3. You know that as well as ………….. .
4. Between you and ………….. I do not believe him.
5. Ram is as old as ………….. .