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To pronouns belong Gender, Number, Person, Case. |
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There are two Personal Pronouns: 1. Simple Personal Pronouns 2. Compound Personal Pronouns |
1. The Simple Personal Pronouns: I, thou, he, she, and it with their declined forms: - we, our, us - my, mine - ye, you, your - thy, thine, thee - his, him, her, its - they, their, them |
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The Compound Personal Pronouns are formed by adding self or selves to some form of the simple personals |
Ex.: - myself - yourselves - himself - themselves |
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You is used to represent both singular and plural nouns. |
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We is used in place of I in editorials, royal proclamations. |
Ex.: - We, Geo. IV, King of Great Britain and Ireland. - We were mistaken. ("I") |
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It is sometimes used in the nominative, without reference to any particular antecedent, and in the objective for euphony alone. |
Ex.: - It thunders. - Come and trip it on the green. |
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When pronouns of different persons are used, the second should precede the third, and the third the first. |
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Declension of Personal Pronouns |
First Person: P. 78 (Harvey's Elementary Grammar) Second Person & Third Person: P. 79 (Harvey's Elementary Grammar) |
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Order of Parsing |
1. A pronoun, why? 2. Personal, why? 3. What is its antecedent? 4. Gender, person, number? Rule. 5. Decline it! 6. Case, and why? Rule. |
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Models for Parsing (p.80) |
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