Question Pronouns
About This Worksheet
This Grade 7 Language Arts worksheet helps students choose and use interrogative pronouns in direct and embedded questions. Interrogative pronouns include who, whom, whose, which, and what. Each word asks for a different kind of information, and its form may depend on whether it acts as a subject, object, or possessive word. For example, who asks about the person performing an action, while whom asks about the person receiving it.
Learning Goals
The main goal is to help students choose question words based on both meaning and grammatical function. Students should already understand subject and object pronouns. This activity moves them toward using interrogative pronouns correctly in ordinary questions and in longer sentences that contain embedded questions. It supports CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.7.1, which focuses on correct pronoun case and sentence structure.
Student Tasks
On this worksheet, students will complete five direct questions and five embedded questions with the correct interrogative pronoun. They will then choose the correct form from five pairs, including who/whom, whose/who’s, which/what, and what/which. The examples involve clubs, invitations, backpacks, designs, interviews, notebooks, team captains, routes, and school subjects. Students must read the whole sentence before deciding which word fits.
Common Challenges
Students often use who in every question about a person, even when the pronoun receives the action and whom is more appropriate. Others may confuse possessive whose with the contraction who’s. The difference between which and what can also be tricky because which usually asks someone to choose from a limited group. Encourage students to use the he/him test for who/whom and the his/who is test for whose/who’s.
Teaching Suggestions
A teacher can model the pronoun tests with short questions. If he fits the answer, use who; if him fits, use whom. For whose, ask whether the sentence is showing ownership. At home, a parent can create everyday questions using each pronoun, such as “Whose shoes are these?” or “Which snack do you want?” This gives students a natural reason to hear and use each form.
Worksheet Features
The page is divided into direct questions, embedded questions, and a form-choice review. This progression helps students begin with straightforward examples before moving into more complex sentence structures. The mix of case, possession, and choice questions gives broad practice with all five interrogative pronouns. This worksheet works well for grammar review, test preparation, homework, or independent practice.