QUESTION: Is "John" the same as "his" in this sentence?
Bill passed the gameboy to John because *his* turn was over.
ANS: no
QUESTION: Is "Bill" the same as "him" in this sentence?
After I saw Bill catching flies and pulling off their wings, I boxed his ears. I showed the master the flies, some crushed and some crawling about helpless, and I showed *him* the wings on the window sill. I never saw him so angry before; but as Bill was still howling and whining, like the coward that he was, he did not give him any more punishment of that kind, but set him up on a stool for the rest of the afternoon, and said that he should not go out to play for that week.
ANS: no
QUESTION: Is "table" the same as "it" in this sentence?
I sat there feeling rather like a chappie I'd once read about in a book , who murdered another cove and hid the body under the dining-room table , and then had to be the life and soul of a dinner party, with *it* there all the time.
ANS: no
QUESTION: Is "Ralph" the same as "his" in this sentence?
Tom said "Check" to Ralph as he took *his* bishop.
ANS:
yes