Chapter LXXX: Review of Pronouns

=314.= We have learned that pronouns may be classified as follows:—

(1) Personal pronouns.

(2) Compound personal pronouns.

(3) Interrogative pronouns.

(4) Adjective pronouns.

(5) Relative pronouns.

(6) Indefinite pronouns.

=Exercise 1.=—Study again Lessons V, XXXIX-XLIII, XLVIII, LXXVI, LXXVIII, and then be prepared to explain each class of pronoun, and to tell the various uses of each class. Illustrate each point with an original sentence or with one that you yourself have found in some book.

=Exercise 2.=—Parse all the pronouns in the following sentences. If there is anything peculiar in the use of any pronoun, comment upon it. (See pp. 100, 106, 108, 122, 197.)

1. What was the Great Stone Face?

2. To make a quarrel needs, indeed, two; but to make peace
needs only one.

3. When the swarm comes out, it consists of both old and young
bees, and, indeed, some say that the old queen leads them, and
the young one takes her vacant throne.

4. We could easily surmise who the Halloween rascals were, but
what was the terrifying apparatus they applied to our window
panes we could not imagine.

5. All of this is mine and thine.

6. Attracted by the smell either of the newly killed waterbuck
or of ourselves, the hungry lions were storming our position.

7. Oh, give me my lowly thatched cottage again.

8. The interior of St. Paul’s is just what one would expect
after viewing the outside. A maze of grand arches on every side
encompasses the dome, which you gaze up at as at the sky; and
from every pillar and wall look down the marble forms of the
dead.

9. By the wholesome law of the prairie, he who falls asleep on
guard is condemned to walk all day.

10.

Who has sight so keen and strong
That it can follow the flight of song?

11. The schoolhouse was a high brick building, and the yard
itself was made of brick.

12. The Eskimo dogs are of great use to their masters in
discovering by the scent the winter retreats which the bears
make under the snow.

13. The Taj Mahal is a Mohammedan tomb, the tomb of the
favorite wife of an Indian Mogul. It is her tomb, and also his
own, for he lies beside her, and it was built in compliance
with a request of hers before she died.

14. I procured a bowl of soup from the steward, but as I was
not able to eat it, I gave it to an old man whose hungry look
and wistful eyes convinced me it would not be lost on him.

15.

What’s a fair or noble face
If the mind ignoble be?

16.

Keep fresh the grass on Wordsworth’s grave,
O Rotha, with thy living wave!
Sing him thy best! for few or none
Hears thy voice right, now he is gone.