Grammar and Language Workbook

10. I told myself again and again not to forget those keys!

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Lesson 4
Pronouns: Interrogative, Relative, 
Demonstrative, and Indefinite
Use an 
interrogative pronoun
to form questions. Interrogative pronouns are who, whom,
whose, what, and which. Other interrogative pronouns are whoever, whomever, whatever,
and whichever.
Whatever gave you that absurd notion?
Use a 
relative pronoun
to begin a subject-verb word group called a subordinate clause.
The last senator who stabbed Caesar was his friend Brutus.
RELATIVE PRONOUNS
who
whom
what
which
that
whoever
whomever
whatever
whichever
whose
 Exercise 1
Draw one line under each interrogative pronoun and two lines under each relative
pronoun.
Who would have imagined how some of the famous car designers started out?
1. Frederick Henry Royce, who as a boy served as an apprentice on the Great Northern Railroad,
later started his own company.
2. Royce Limited, a company that manufactured electric cranes and dynamos, did not make cars.
3. The industrialist, whose origins had been in poverty, achieved considerable success with his
cranes by the age of forty.
4. What interested Royce about the possibility of making a car?
5. We do not know for certain what Royce’s answer to that question would have been.
6. Whatever his dreams were, the fact is that the former rail shop worker had developed poor
health.
7. His friends encouraged him to buy an automobile, which they hoped would get his mind off
his condition.
8. In those early days all autos, which were fascinating to almost everyone, delighted engineers
prone to tinkering, adjusting, and improving.