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.