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Subject Pronoun Exercises with Answers

Multiple-choice practice on the seven subject pronouns: replacing a name or a noun phrase with the right pronoun, choosing between he, she and it, telling we from they, and using you for one listener or several. Every question comes with an answer and an explanation.

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Sample questions with answers

Where is Mai? ____ is at home today.
- A. He
- B. She(correct answer)
- C. It
- D. They
Why: Mai is a woman's name, so the pronoun is she. English makes you choose between he and she before you can finish the sentence — there is no neutral pronoun for one named person, and it would turn Mai into a thing.
My father and I work in the same office. ____ go there by bus.
- A. They
- B. We(correct answer)
- C. He
- D. You
Why: Any group that includes the speaker becomes we. They would exclude the speaker, and he would leave the father alone in the sentence.
My phone is very old. ____ still works well.
- A. He
- B. She
- C. It(correct answer)
- D. They
Why: A phone is a thing, and one thing is it. English keeps he and she for people, so a machine, a city or a book is always it however fond of it you are.

Lessons on this topic

Subject Pronouns
What the seven subject pronouns stand for, how to replace a noun with the right one, and why it is never used for a person while you covers one and many.
Basic Sentence Structure
Subject, verb and object, why English word order carries the meaning, the two slots no sentence may leave empty.
Demonstratives: This, That, These, Those
How the four demonstratives divide up near and far, singular and plural, how they work both before a noun and alone, and the questions they appear in.
Object Pronouns
The seven object pronouns, how they differ from subject pronouns, and the two positions they fill: after a verb and after a preposition.
Possessives
The seven possessive adjectives, why his and her follow the owner, its versus it's, where the apostrophe goes on singular and plural owners, and Whose.
Possessive Pronouns
Possessive pronouns mine, yours, his, hers, ours and theirs: when they replace my or your, answering Whose questions, and a friend of mine.
Prepositions of Place and Time
in, on and at for places and for times, the words under, behind, in front of, next to, between and near, and the time words that take no preposition at all.
Reflexive Pronouns
The eight reflexive pronouns in English, when you do something to yourself, by myself, and themselves vs. each other.
Verb To Be: Am, Is, Are
Am, is and are with every subject, what follows be, the short forms, isn't and aren't, yes/no and Wh- questions, and the short answers that go with them.

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