Correct Pronouns

In the following sentences choose the proper form from the words in italics.

  1. My brother and I / me drove to the east end of the town.

  2. Between you and I /me things are doubtful.

  3. May James and I/ me go to the circus?

  4. Will you permit James and I /me to go to the play?

  5. Who made that noise? Only I/ me.

  6. He introduced us all, I/ me among the rest.

  7. He promised to bring candy to Helen and I/ me.

  8. Was it I/ me that you asked for?

  9. Who spoke? I/ me.

 10. I am taken to be he/ him.

 11. No, it could not have been me/ I.

 12. All have gone but you and I/ me.

 13. You suffer more than me/ I.

 14. Everyone has failed in the examination except you and I/ me.

 15. He asked you and I/ me to come to his office.

 16. See if there is any mail for Mary and me/ I.

 17. Neither you nor I/ me can teach the class.

 18. They think it to be I/ me.

 19 I did not see that it was her/ she.

 20. It is in fact he/ him.

 21. He still believes it to be them/ they.

 22. Between you and I /me, it is my opinion that him/ he and John  will disagree.

 23. We saw John and she/ her; we know it was them/ they.

 24. I did not speak of either you or she/ her.

 25. Our cousins and we/ us are going to the Art Gallery.

 26. Aunt Mary has asked our cousins and us/ we to take dinner at her house.

 27. They are more eager than we/ us since they have not seen her for a long time.

 28.We /us boys are going to the ball game.

 29. The teacher told you and I/ me to stay.

 30. The teacher told you and him/ he to stay.

 31. The teacher told you and she/ her to stay.

 32. There are many miles between England and we/ us.

 33. They can't play the game better than we/ us.

 34. It is unpleasant for such as they/ them to witness such things.

 35. You are nearly as strong as him/ he.

 36. All were present but John and he/ him.

 37. Father believed it was she/ her.

 38. Mother knew it to be her/ she.

 39. It was either he/ him or she/ her that called.

 40. Because of his/ him being young, they tried to shield him.

 41. She told John and me/ I to study.

 42. My father allowed my brother and her/ she to go.

 43. My brother and she/ her were allowed to go by my father.

 44. Turn not away from him/ he that is needy.

 45. Neither Frances nor she/ her was at fault.

 46. The property goes to they/ them.

 47. He thought it was her/ she, but it was him/ he and William who did it.

 48. It was through she/ her that word came to me/ I.

 49. I thought it was her/ she.

 50. I wish you were more like he/ him.

 51. I thought it to be she/ her.

 52.  You are as skillful as she/ her.

 53. We escorted her mother and her/ she to the station.

 54. She/ her and I/ me are going on the boat.

 55. If any are late it will not be us/ we.

 56. They/ them and their children have gone abroad.

 57. It was not they/ them.

 58.   It could not have been him/ he.

 59. Let them/ they come at once.

 60. Will he let us/ we  go?

 61. Can it be she/ her?

Vocabulary Task

doff	efflorescence	hap-hazard	impugn
eradicate	flint	sundry

1.     Individuals sent quotation to Oxford, but no organization was established to make the collection systematic or complete, and at the meeting of the Association the section had ceased to exist, or at least had _____ its literary character.

2.     Mr. Threlkeld is not the only writer who will not acknowledge as aboriginal _____ words with an undoubted Australian pedigree.

3.     Australian aboriginal words have been written down on no system, and very much at _____.

4.     All it indicates is somewhat childish effort to gain the approval of Englishmen- a belated _____ of the colonial spirit, often commingled with fashionable aspiration.

5.     I am conscious that, like every other work of the same sort, it must necessarily, and without thereby _____ its general system, be subject to correction in many points of detail.

6.     Should governments spend more money to eradicate diseases like malaria?

7.     Ethnographical sources indicate that _____ and pyrite were used in combination to produce fire.

Pronoun Task

Choose the proper relative or interrogative pronoun to be inserted in each of the following sentences. Insert commas where they are needed.

  1. The kindly physician ____ was so greatly loved is dead.

  2. This is the man ____ all are praising.

  3. John ____ is my coachman is sick.

  4. The intelligence ____ he displayed was remarkable.

  5. Intelligence ____ he had hitherto not manifested now showed its presence.

  6. He maintains that the book ____ you used is now ruined.

  7. The pleasure ____ education gives the man ____ has it is a sufficient reward for the trouble ____ it has cost.

  8. That man ____ wears a cap is a foreigner.

  9. The best hotel is the one ____ is nearest the station.

 10. Who is it ____ is worthy of that honor?

 11. The carriages and the drivers  ____ you ordered yesterday have arrived.

 12. ____ thing is it ____ you want?

 13. He purchased ____ he wished.

 14. There is no cloud ____ has not its silver lining.

 15. It is the same dog ____ I bought.

 16. The man and horse ____ you see pass here every afternoon.

 17. ____ did they seek?

 18. They inquired ____ he was going to do.

 19. Who was it ____ lost the book?

 20. The man ____ was a Frenchman was very much excited.

 21. It is neither the party nor its candidate ____ gains support.

 22. That is a characteristic ____ makes him seem almost rude.

 23. It is the same tool ____ I used all day.

 24. He is a man ____ inspires little confidence.

 25. ____ does he expect of us?

 26. It is just such a thing ____ I need.

 27. There are few ____ will vote for him.

 28. The wagon and children ____ you just saw came from our town.

 29. He ____ writes out his lesson does all ____ can be expected.

 30. Was it you or the cat ____ made that noise?

 31. It is the same song ____ he always sings.

 32. Such ____ I have is yours.

 33. All the men and horses ____ we had were lost.

 34. That is ____ pleased me most and ____ everyone talked about.

 35. The horse was one ____ I had never ridden before.

 36. That is ____ everyone said.

Vocabulary Task

gauge	exhilirating	Hampering
obscene	recursive	sordid

1.     The writer will feel that her object has been gained should any readers of these stories feel that for a little while they have left the toilful utilitarianism of the present day behind them, and, with it, its _____ restrictions of sordid actualities that are so murderous to imagination and to all romance.

2.     But even as Prometheus unflinchingly bore the cruelties of pain, of heat and of cold, of hunger and of thirst, and the tortures inflicted by an obscene bird of prey, so have endured the men of our nation and of those nations with whom we are proud to be allied.

3.      A week in and Curries adventure is both _____ and exhausting.

4.     Hopefully we’ll learn something about both math and _____ data structures along the way.

5.     The purpose of the text is to _____ your current knowledge of grammar.

6.     The writer will feel that her object  has been gained should any readers of these stories feel that for a little while they have left the toilful utilitarianism of the present day behind them, and, with it, its hampering restrictions of _____ actualities that are so murderous to imagination and all romance.