Relative Pronouns Worksheets for 4th Grade
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Skill: Choosing who, whom, whose, which, or that to connect a describing part to a noun
Teaching tips and what to try next
Best for fourth graders who can already spot nouns and pronouns in a sentence. A quick test for who versus whom: if he fits the blank, use who; if him fits after a word like to or with, use whom. Revisit basic pronouns in Pronouns and Reflexive Pronouns, and practice building longer sentences correctly in Complete Sentences, Fragments, and Run-Ons.
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About this worksheet
Relative pronouns let writers add details about a noun without starting a new sentence. Instead of "The girl won the race. She is my cousin," we can write "The girl who won the race is my cousin." Fourth graders learn to use the relative pronouns who, whom, whose, which, and that. This fourth-grade worksheet gives twelve sentences to practice them.
Each sentence has two choices in parentheses, such as (who / which), and only one of them is correct. Children write the correct word on the line. The sentences cover the main rules: who for a person doing the action, whom for a person after a word like to or with, whose to show that something belongs to someone, which for a thing in a part set off by commas, and that for a thing in a part that is needed to make the meaning clear. The answers are mixed so that no word appears in a predictable pattern.
How to use it: before writing, have your child find the noun the pronoun is describing and ask, "Is it a person or a thing?" That one question settles most of the sentences. For whose, ask whether something belongs to the person. For whom, check whether a small word like to or with comes right before the blank. Afterwards, ask your child to combine two short sentences of their own into one sentence with a relative pronoun.
The answer key lists every correct word. For more grammar practice, try our Prepositions and Prepositional Phrases worksheet and our Complete Sentences, Fragments, and Run-Ons worksheet.