Harvey's Elementary Grammar and Composition · Lesson 34 · Part 1: Part I: The elementary course
34. Interrogative pronouns
Goal: Your child can find the question words who, whose, whom, which and what, and tell when which or what is used as an adjective.
You'll need
- The book, open to this lesson
- Paper and a pencil (or a slate)
What's in the book
Page 55 starts with sentences to rewrite with relative clauses, then Lesson 34 defines interrogative pronouns and interrogative adjectives, with a model and ten questions.
The lesson, step by step
Review
Rewrite with a relative clause, as the page asks: "Industrious people always prosper." (People who are industrious always prosper.)
Question words
Read:
An Interrogative Pronoun is one used in asking questions.
List them together: who, whose, whom, which, what.
Pronoun or adjective?
The book says which and what are sometimes placed before nouns, and then they are called interrogative adjectives. Compare "Which do you want?" with "Which road shall I take?"
Use the model
The model is:
Who visited your school yesterday?
Your child says: "Who is a pronoun; interrogative; it is used in asking a question."
The book's questions
Find the interrogative pronoun in each:
What did he say?
Whom did you call?
Whose book is this?
Check together
Check with the answers.
Use it today
Ask three questions at dinner, each with a different question word.
Answers to the book's problems
Rewritten: People who are industrious always prosper. There are many men who are rich in New York. He has some money that is counterfeit. A dog that barks seldom bites. The paper that was moldy was burned. Interrogatives: What; Who; Which; Whom; Whose; What; Who; Who; Who; Whose.
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