1. Interrogative and Demonstrative Pronouns

2. Interrogative Pronouns
who, whom refers to people
what refers to things
which refers to people or things
whose indicates ownership or relationship

3. Interrogative Pronoun Tips
Don’t confuse whose with who’s.
Who’s is a contraction that means who is.
If you can replace it with he, use who.
If you can replace it with him, use whom.

4. Examples (Who, Whom) won the championship last year?
By (who, whom) was that poem written?
(Who, Whom) did the president appoint as secretary of defense?
(Whose, Who’s) books are on the kitchen table?

5. Demonstrative Pronouns
Points out a person, place, thing, or idea
this, that, these, those
Never use the word “here” or “there” after a demonstrative pronoun.

6. Examples (That, Those) are the cherries that taste the sweetest.
(Those, That) is the dog that howls all night.
(This, This here) is the house where I live.
(This, These) is the most expensive necklace I own.

7. Examples (Who, Whom, Whose)
_____ is willing to wash the windows today?
_____ are you ordering around?
_____ is the autographed picture of Mickey Mantle?
The author is _____.

8. Examples (This, That, These, Those)
_____ is the school my brother attends.
_____ are the photographs from my vacation.
_____ are the books I used for my report.
We were looking for a quilt, but we found _____ instead.

9. Examples
You want to know the name of the person who stars in a movie. (use who)
You want to know the name of the person who directed the movie. (use whom)