I. Point out the interrogative pronouns in the following sentences.

  1. Who has learned his lesson?
  2. Which seat do you prefer?
  3. What have you found in the garden?
  4. For what are you punished?
  5. Whose school do you attend?
  6. Who went with you?
  7. Whom do you follow?
  8. Which way has she gone?

II. Tell which of the above examples are pronouns, and which are interrogative adjectives.

III. Tell which of the following pronouns are relative and which are interrogative.

  1. He whose image thou art.
  2. From what fountain flowed their light?
  3. What title do you bear?
  4. He whose genius had angelic wings.
  5. What good way would bring me to the place?
  6. Who found the flower?
  7. I am he whom you seek.
  8. He found the book for which I sent him.
  9. Of whom do you speak?
  10. That which was lost is found.

IV. Parse the nouns, adjectives, and the pronouns in the following examples.
As you work through these exercises, use the informatiion on the Parsing Model for Interogative Pronouns page.

  1. A great mistake, which is too common, especially among those who have experienced many trials and difficulties in life, is, that happiness is to be found in rest.
    But, as has been pointedly remarked, that man is most restless who is most at rest.
  2. An ill book well written is like poisoning a fountain that runs forever; a man may do mischief this way, it may be, as long as the world lasts. He is a nuisance to future ages, and lays a snare for those who are yet unborn.
    Jeremy Collier
  3. Mark but my fall, and that that ruined me.
    Cromwell
  4. I charge thee, fling away ambition!
    By that sin fell the angels.
    William Shakespeare
  5. Motionless torrents! Silent cataracts!
    Who made you glorious as the gates of heaven 
    Beneath the keen full moon? Who bade the sun 
    Clothe you with rainbows?
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  6. Ay! Heaven had set one living man 
    Beyond the pedant’s tether; 
    His virtues, frailties, He will scan 
    Who weighs them all together!
    Oliver Wendell Holmes



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