Practice GIKI English questions with answers and explanations.
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'Mine' is an independent possessive pronoun that can stand without a noun.
'My' would need to modify a following noun.
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The plural subject 'students' requires the plural reflexive pronoun 'themselves.'
It shows that the students prepared their own persons.
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A pronoun after the preposition 'between' must be in the objective case.
Therefore, 'me' is correct.
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'Herself' refers back to the subject 'She' and receives the action.
A reflexive pronoun must have an appropriate antecedent in the clause.
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'Herself' emphasizes 'the principal' but is not required for the sentence's grammar.
This emphatic use is called intensive.
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'Whose' shows possession between the woman and the car.
It introduces a relative clause modifying 'woman.'
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The pronoun is the object of the preposition 'to.'
Formal standard English therefore uses 'whom.'
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'That' can refer to a thing and functions as the subject of the relative clause.
The clause identifies which book is meant.
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Repeating 'Ayesha' makes the actor clear, while 'her' naturally refers to Sana.
The other sentences contain ambiguous pronoun references.
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'Mistakes' is a plural countable noun.
The comparative quantifier 'fewer' is therefore correct.
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'Every' is followed by a singular countable noun.
It refers individually to all members of the group.
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Before a noun phrase with 'the,' the normal order is 'both the books.'
'Both of' would require a pronoun or 'the' before the noun.
