Choose the pronoun form that fits its grammatical role.
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Lift the extra phrase out of the sentence, then fit the right verb into the gap.
This exercise practises select a pronoun form alongside its own main skill, Subject-Verb Agreement.
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A worked example
One question of the kind this skill is tested with, worked all the way through: the reasoning, and what the wrong answers are there to catch.
Worked example: Which pronoun fits?
Worked example: Which pronoun completes the sentence correctly? Either Priya or ___ will read the notices.
his
her
she
us
Answer: she
How you get there
Here these two are the ones DOING the action, so the gap is part of the subject however many people are joined on to it, which means "she" is the form the sentence needs. The others are the same pronoun system in the wrong case: "her" is an object form, used for the person something is done TO; "his" shows belonging, and nothing is being owned at this gap; "us" is an object form, used for the person something is done TO.
Why the other answers tempt
Adding a second person changes nothing. If "me carried the box" is wrong on its own, "Priya and me carried the box" is wrong as well.
If they are stuck, say this
Take the other person out and read the sentence again: "___ carried the box", "gave the prize to ___". Whichever form still sounds right on its own is the one the gap needs.
Lift the extra phrase out of the sentence, then fit the right verb into the gap.
This engine’s own main skill is Subject-Verb Agreement. It practises select a pronoun form alongside it.
The subject of this sentence is "box", not "pencils". "Of coloured pencils" is a prepositional phrase that only describes the box, and a subject never lives inside one. One box is singular, so it takes the singular verb "was". Lift the phrase out and the sentence tells you the answer itself.
What to say if they get stuck
Grab the little handle on "of coloured pencils" and drag the whole phrase upwards.
Read what is left behind: "The box ___ on the art room shelf." What is the sentence actually about?
The subject can never hide inside a phrase beginning with "of". One box, so: "was".
How select a pronoun form differs from the skills beside it
The same exercise practises several skills, and telling them apart is often the difficulty rather than the exercise itself. On this page the skill is: choose the pronoun form that fits its grammatical role, and it stops where one pronoun case or reference decision.
Answered from what the skill map records about this skill, not from a template. Every answer here is on the page, and the same questions are the page's FAQ structured data.
Choose the pronoun form that fits its grammatical role. It is one of 41 named English skills in the 11+, in the grammar strand, and this page carries 1 interactive exercise that practises it.
Adding a second person changes nothing. If "me carried the box" is wrong on its own, "Priya and me carried the box" is wrong as well. The wrong answers on this skill are built out of that, not out of random numbers, so it is worth naming out loud before your child meets it under time pressure.
Point at the next move rather than explaining the whole rule. Take the other person out and read the sentence again: "___ carried the box", "gave the prize to ___". Whichever form still sounds right on its own is the one the gap needs.
The skill map draws the line here: One pronoun case or reference decision. A question past that line is testing a different named English skill, which is worth knowing before you spend a week practising the wrong one.
The grammar strand holds 9 skills that are tested together, and the pages next to select a pronoun form are classify a word in context, complete a finite clause and distinguish contraction and possession. Each has its own exercise and its own link, and none of them needs an account.
Use Sentence Surgery, embedded on this page. It is the exercise the skill map attaches to select a pronoun form, it runs in the browser with no account to make, nothing is scored, and nothing a child does here is recorded or sent anywhere. It also has its own link, so you can send it to a child without sending them anywhere else first.
Comprehension, vocabulary, grammar and punctuation are four different problems
A free diagnostic separates them, so practice goes where the gap actually is rather than on whichever one is easiest to set.
