Interrogative pronoun can be defined as “An interrogative pronoun is a pronoun used in order to ask a question. Often it has no antecedent because the antecedent is unknown. That is why the question is being asked! In modern English there are five interrogative pronouns: what, which, who, whom, and whose.”
Explanation
Interrogative pronoun is a pronoun which we use in the sentence to ask questions very easily. There are various interrogative pronouns used differently to ask very specific questions.
They can also be used as relative pronouns to ask questions. The word ‘interrogate’ means to ask question. We use interrogative pronouns in the sentence to replace the noun and that ask a question.
Interrogative pronouns take the place of subject or object in the sentence. Some interrogative pronouns can be created by adding the suffix ‘ever’ such as whatever, whoever, whichever, whomever, and whosever.
‘Who’ and ‘whom’ are used for person, ‘what’ is used for things, ‘which’ is used for person or thing, and ‘whose’ is used for person. Mainly there are five interrogative words such as who, whose, whom, which, and what.
For example
Interrogative pronouns are used in the sentence to ask questions. They can be used as the object or the subject of the sentnece. They generally stand for what is unknown in the sentence. Interrogative pronouns never become plural and used to ask question that requires more than an answer of ‘yes’ or ‘no’.
‘Who’ is generally used as subjective or possesive pronoun whereas ‘whom’ as an objective pronoun. Interrogative pronouns are used to ask both, direct and indirect questions.
Following are the sentences having different interrogative pronouns. All the sentences are ended with a question mark because of the use of interrogative pronouns.
We have provided below some exercises in order to help you to improve your knowledge about interrogative pronoun. You need to get detail information about interrogative pronoun provided above and check your skill by doing following exercises.
Choose the correct interrogative pronouns from the following sentences given below and match with the given answer:
Answers: 1 – What, 2 – Who, 3 – Which, 4 – Whose, 5 – whom, 6 – What, 7 – Whose, 8 – Whatsoever, 9 – Whom, 10 – Which, 11 – Who, 12 – Which, 13 – Whom, 14 – What, 15 – Who, 16 – Who, 17 – Who, 18 – What, 19 – What, 20 – Who
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