{"id":73822,"date":"2020-04-06T10:04:33","date_gmt":"2020-04-06T10:04:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=73822"},"modified":"2024-07-22T13:43:33","modified_gmt":"2024-07-22T13:43:33","slug":"distributive-pronouns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/distributive-pronouns\/","title":{"rendered":"Distributive Pronouns"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Distributive pronouns\u00a0<\/b>refer to people or things taken one at a time. Examples are:\u00a0each, either<\/b>\u00a0and\u00a0neither<\/b>. Since they refer to a single person or thing at a time,\u00a0distributive pronouns<\/b>\u00a0are always singular and are followed by singular verbs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Worksheet<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Fill in the blanks with an appropriate distributive pronoun or a verb that agrees with it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. Each student …………………… to participate in the program. (has \/ have)<\/li>
  2. Either he or you ………………….. to do the shopping. (has \/ have)<\/li>
  3. I can’t get on with ……………………… of my roommates. (either \/ each \/ neither)<\/li>
  4. I like ……………………. of my roommates. (either \/ neither)<\/li>
  5. ………………… violet nor pink suits me. (Neither\/ each)<\/li>
  6. I gave ……………………. of the children a cookie. (each \/ every \/ either)<\/li>
  7. We have meetings on ………………….. Monday. (every \/ either \/ each)<\/li>
  8. The two siblings love …………………… other. (each \/ every)<\/li>
  9. Trains depart …………………. five minutes. (each \/ every)<\/li>
  10. The doctor examined ………………….. patient. (each \/ every \/ either)<\/li>
  11. …………………. suggestion is acceptable to us. (Neither \/ Each)<\/li>
  12. I invited them both but ………………… came. (neither \/ either)<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Answers<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    1. has, 2. have, 3. either, 4. neither, 5. Neither, 6. each, 7. every, 8. each, 9. every, 10. each, 11. Neither, 12. neither<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

      See also:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Distributive adjectives<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Distributive pronouns\u00a0refer to people or things taken one at a time. Examples are:\u00a0each, either\u00a0and\u00a0neither. Since they refer to a single person or thing at a time,\u00a0distributive pronouns\u00a0are always singular and are followed by singular...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[251],"tags":[2537,2536,836],"class_list":["post-73822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar","tag-distributive-pronouns","tag-distributives","tag-pronouns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73822"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77863,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73822\/revisions\/77863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}