Question

Identify the type of underlined pronoun in the following sentence
Those are my books.
A.Possessive pronoun
B.Indefinite pronoun
C.Personal pronoun
D.Demonstrative pronoun

Answer 1

Hint: Read the given sentence and try to decipher what it means. Understand what the underlined word signifies and what role it plays in the given sentence. Now go through the options and recall what each of them mean. Choose the one which best expresses the role of the underlined word.

Complete answer:
Pronouns are words that function as a noun/ in place of a noun. Pronouns can do all of the things that nouns can do. They can be subjects, direct objects, indirect objects, objects of the preposition, and more.
Pronouns are of many types for example: possessive pronoun, relative pronouns, reflexive pronoun and many more. Now, let us analyze the given options-

Option A ‘Possessive Pronoun’ is incorrect : Possessive pronouns are used to show possession(yours, mine, his, it's etc) so the given sentence is in the form of those so the option does not match with the sentence and for that sake we are not using this as the correct option.

Option B is incorrect : Indefinite pronouns are used for non-specific things (anybody, somebody etc).Her the underlined word is not like somebody ,anybody so the given type of pronoun is not the correct Option.

Option C is incorrect : Personal pronoun is the incorrect option because here They are used to refer to people or objects that we are speaking about. In the case of people, there are different personal pronouns that can be used depending upon whether we are talking in the 1st, 2nd or 3rd person perspective.

Option D is correct : These pronouns are used to demonstrate or indicate(this, that, these, those etc) So the underlined word is matching with the typeof the pronoun so the option D is considered as the write option .And the word those is also matching with the option and we use it as the proper option for the given sentence.

Therefore the correct answer is option ‘D’.

Note: It is essential to remember that A singular antecedent requires a singular pronoun; a plural antecedent needs a plural pronoun. Antecedent means something that precedes another.