ENGLISH QUIZ: Fill in the blanks with relative pronouns!

Answer these questions and find out just how good you are with relative pronouns in English grammar! Illustration: Uttam Ghosh

'The man who you just spoke to is my father.'

'This is the house that my grandfather built.'

'Whose clothes are lying strewn across the floor?'

The words italicised in the above sentences are all relative pronouns, a type of pronoun that introduces a relative clause referring to some antecedent (whom, which, where, when, and why are other examples, in addition to the ones above).

Fill in the blanks for each sentence in the following pages with the appropriate relative pronoun.

Answers are provided upon submission of results on each page and you can draw your own conclusions about your performance!

Fill in the blank with the correct relative pronoun:
______ are you and ______ are you doing here?
1) who, what
2) how, who
3) what, how

Fill in the blank with the correct relative pronoun:
Where is the package ______ I placed on this shelf?
1) what
2) whom
3) that

Fill in the blank with the correct relative pronoun:
So he's the man ______ Nisha has been stepping out with lately.
1) what
2) who
3) which

Fill in the blank with the correct relative pronoun:
His wife wants to know ______ cigarettes he smokes every day.
1) how many
2) how much
3) much

Fill in the blank with the correct relative pronoun:
Mr Khanna's sons, both of ______ are doctors, are among the town's richest residents.
1) who
2) whom
3) which

Fill in the blank with the correct relative pronoun:
This is the house ______ Charles Dickens spent the last years of his life.
1) which
2) where
3) that

Fill in the blank with the correct relative pronoun:
The property _______ they want to buy is exorbitantly priced.
1) that
2) what
3) who

Fill in the blank with the correct relative pronoun:
People ______ live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.
1) that
2) which
3) who

Fill in the blank with the correct relative pronoun:
______ colour is your dress? We'll buy shoes ______ match.
1) which, what
2) what, that
3) what, whose

Fill in the blank with the correct relative pronoun:
______ house are we meeting at tonight?
1) which
2) whose
3) who

Fill in the blank with the correct relative pronoun:
The lady with ______ Rajesh struck up a conversation happened to be the CEO of a prominent organisation.
1) whom
2) who
3) what

Fill in the blank with the correct relative pronoun:
______ set of cutlery do you want to lay out for dinner tonight?
1) which
2) what
3) where

Fill in the blank with the correct relative pronoun:
______ do you think will win the next general election?
1) whom
2) whose
3) who

Fill in the blank with the correct relative pronoun:
The piece of paper on ______ he made a note of her telephone number is lost.
1) that
2) which
3) where

Fill in the blank with the correct relative pronoun:
A lot of employees were offended by the comments ______ their boss made.
1) what
2) that
3) who

Your score is: 0 out of 15

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