QUESTIONS FOR EXAMINATION.

1. What is a pronoun ?

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How many kinds of pronouns are there? 3. How many personal pronouns are there?

4. Why are they called personal pronouns ? 5. Of what do personal pronouns admit ?

6. Which is the person who speaks? Which the person spoken to? And which the person spoken of?

7. How many persons are there in each number? 8. Which is the first person, singular? Which the second ? Which the third ? Which is the first person, plural? Which the second? Which the third ?

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How many numbers have pronouns ? —Name

them.

To which person has gender respect ? What gender is he? Of what gender is she? Of what gender is it?

11. How many cases have pronouns ?-Name them. 12. Has the objective case of a pronoun generally the same form as the nominative or posses

sive ?

13. Decline the personal pronoun, I?

14. Decline the pronoun, thou?

15. Decline the pronoun, he? 16. Decline the pronoun, she? 17. Decline the pronoun, it?

RELATINE PRONOUNS.

1. Relative pronouns are such as relate, in general, to some word or phrase going before, which is thence called the antecedent: they are WHO, WHICH and THAT.

2. WHAT is a kind of compound relative, including both the antecedent and the relative, and is mostly equivalent to THAT WHICH; as, This is WHAT I wanted;" that is to say, THE THING WHICH I WANTED.

3. WHO is applied to PERSONS, WHICH to ANIMALS and things INANIMAte.

4. THAT, as a relative, is often used to prevent the too frequent repetition of wнo and WHICH; it is applied to both persons and things. 5. WHO is of both numbers, and is thus declined :

SINGULAR AND PLURAL.

6. Who, which, and what are called INTERROGATIVES, when they are used in asking questions.

7. Pronouns must always agree with the nouns for which they stand in gender and number.

8. Personal pronouns being used to supply the place of the noun, are not employed in the same part of a sentence as the noun which they represent; for it would be improper to say, "The king he is just."

QUESTIONS FOR EXAMINATION.

1. What are relative pronouns ?-Name them. To what do they relate? What is it called?

2. What kind of pronoun is the word what? 3. To what is the relative who, applied?

4. Why is the relative that, often used? To what is the pronoun that, applied ?

5. What number is who?-Decline the relative

pronoun, who.

6. What are who, which, and what called, when they are used in asking questions?

7. With what must pronouns always agree?

8.

What place do personal pronouns supply? May they be employed in the same part of a sentence as the noun which they represent? What would it be improper to say?

ADJECTIVE PRONOUNS.

1. The adjective pronouns may be subdivided into four sorts, namely, the possessive, the distributive, the demonstrative, and the indefinite.

2. The adjective pronouns are of a mixed nature, and partake of the properties both of pronouns and adjectives.

3. The POSSESSIVE are those which relate to possession or property: there are seven of them; viz. my, thy, his, her, our, your, their.

4. Mine and thine, instead of my and thy, were formerly used before a substantive or adjective, beginning with a vowel or a silent h.

5. The pronouns his, mine, thine, have the same form, whether they are possessive pronouns, or the possessive case of their personal pronouns.

6. The pronoun His, when detached from the noun to which it relates, is not a possessive pronoun, but the possessive case of the personal pronoun.

7. The DISTRIBUTIVE are those which denote the persons or things that make up a number as taken SEPARATELY and singly they are each, every, and either.

8. EACH signifies either of the two, or every one taken separately.

9. EVERY relates to several persons or things, and signifies each one of them all, taken separately.

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10. EITHER signifies the one or the other. NOT EITHER;" that is,

11. Neither means 66 not one nor the other.

12. The DEMONSTRATIVE are those which PRECISELY point out the subjects to which they relate; THIS and THAT, THESE and THOSE, are of this class; THIS refers to the nearest person or thing, and THAT to the more distant; THIS indicates the latter or last-mentioned; THAT the former or first-mentioned; the demonstrative pronouns are similar in their meaning to the definite article.

13. The pronoun THAT is frequently applied to persons, as well as to things, but after an adjective in the superlative degree, and after the pronominal adjective SAME, it is generally used in preference to who or WHICH.

14. The INDEFINITE are those which express their subjects in an indefinite or GENERAL manner the following are of this kind; some, one, any other, all, such, &c.

15. Of these pronouns, only the words one and OTHER are varied. One has a possessive case, as nominative one; possessive, singular one's, plural ones', nominative other, possessive singular other's, plural others'.