262. PARSING POSSESSIVE PRONOUNS

Possessive pronouns are in the nominative case if they are subjects or predicate pronouns. They are in the accusative case if they are objects of verbs, participles, infinitives, or prepositions.

a. Parse the possessive pronouns in lesson 261 by telling the kind, person, number, gender, use in the sentence, and case.

"Mine" is a pos

singular number, It is a predicate

MODEL: This hat is mine. scssive pronoun, first person, masculine or feminine gender. pronoun. Therefore, it is in the nominative case. b. Parse four personal pronouns from the same lesson. Use the model in lesson 260.

263. INTERROGATIVE PRONOUNS

a. From the following sentences select the pronouns used in asking questions:

1. Who are you?
2. Whose is this?

3. For whom did you ask?
4. Which pleases you?

5. What is that?

6. Which shall I take?

7. Who wrote it?

8. What shall I do?

Pronouns used in asking questions are called interrogative pronouns. Like other pronouns, they are in the nominative case if they are subjects or predicate pronouns. When are they in the accusative case? Which pronoun has special forms for the nominative and accusative cases?

b. In the following sentences, describe the pronouns by telling the kind, the use in the sentence, and the case.

1. Who was right in the recent discussion?
2. Is this ours?

3. She asked for you and me.

4. To whom did you write this long letter?
5. This hat is theirs.

6. Which is yours?
7. Was it he?

8. Who is it?

9. Whom will you ask to be the leader? 10. What did you draw?

II. I am coming with you.

12. Whose is this?

13. Which of the examples was correct?

14. What are you reading during your vacation?

15. May we go with them?

16. He left us here.

17. What can be wrong with them?

18. Sarah is going with us to visit my cousin.

c. Turn to lesson 260, and find the order of parsing. Parse the pronouns in italics in the sentences above.

264. DEMONSTRATIVE PRONOUNS

In the following sentences, notice that this, that, these, and those point out.

A pronoun used to point out is a demonstrative pronoun. When this, that, these, and those modify nouns, they are no longer pronouns, but adjectives.

a. Select the pronouns in the following sentences, writing them in four lists-personal, possessive, interrogative, and demonstrative.

1. Which do you prefer, the book or the pen?

2. This is mine.

3. Whose are these?

4. Who chose these?

5. I asked for that.

6. To whom were you speaking about the matter?

7. Those are his.

8. What caused it?

9. Which do you mean?

10. Are these yours?

II. These are my books.

12. Those are not our pens but we shall use them.

13. This is the forest primeval.

14. We asked to do this.

15. The book, being his, should be returned.

16. Who was asked to bring this?

17. They were sent to ask us.

18. Whose was accepted?

19. These were found with those.

20. Watching these was their task for the day.

21. Those were the first words he spoke.

22. Which is the largest in the state?

23. Who do you think I am?

24. In what work are you proficient?

b. Tell the use in the sentence and the case of each pronoun in the sentences above.

MODEL: Which do you prefer? "Which" is the object of the verb "do prefer." Therefore, it is in

the accusative case.

c. Tell the person, number, and gender of the personal and possessive pronouns.

d. Tell the number of the demonstrative pro

nouns.

265. INDEFINITE PRONOUNS

Pronouns that do not refer to any definite person

or thing are called indefinite pronouns.

The words

in italics in the following sentences are common examples:

1. None of these will do.

2. Many will go to-morrow.
3. Neither would choose.
4. Few will be absent.

5. All are welcome.

a. From the following sentences, select the indefinite pronouns and tell how each is used:

1. Several were invited to join the club, but none

accepted.

2. Many are called, but few are chosen.

3. We expected him to do too much.

4. Another will occupy his place.

5. All have replied to your invitation.
6. Every one will come.

7. Each has hers in her purse.

8. Several asked to lend you theirs.

9. Who brought some?

10. Is this all?

11. Some were swimming, others were diving.

12. Every one should give a little.

13. Both appeared suddenly from behind that tree. 14. Some have too much.

15. I little have, and seek no more.

16. I hoped to see many there.

b. Parse the pronouns in italics above, following the model in lesson 260.

From your study of pronouns, what would you

give as the case of an indefinite pronoun used as a subject? as a predicate pronoun? as the object of a verb? of an infinitive?

266. RELATIVE PRONOUNS

Turn to lesson 228 and review relative pronouns. A relative pronoun has the same person, number, and gender as its antecedent. Its case depends upon its use in the sentence. If a relative pronoun is a subject or a predicate pronoun it is in the nominative case. If it is the object of a verb, infinitive, participle, gerund, or preposition, it is in the accusative case.

a. Select the relative pronouns in lesson 228. Tell the use in the sentence and the case of each.

MODEL: The lad who was here is an orphan. "Who" is a relative pronoun, the subject of the verb "was." Therefore, it is in the nominative case.

b. Find the antecedent of each relative pronoun and tell its gender and number.

c. Tell whether the pronouns in the same group of sentences are personal, possessive, interrogative, demonstrative, or relative, and tell the use in the sentence and the case of each.

267. A REVIEW OF PRONOUNS AND NOUNS The kinds of pronouns are: personal, possessive, demonstrative, interrogative, indefinite, and relative.

a. In the sentences on the next page, parse the pronouns, by telling the kind, person, gender, number, use in the sentence, and case.