R expresses "uncertainty" or "incompleteness," and is employed to convert a statement into a question, or a relative pronoun into one of inquiry.

personal and the interrogative pronouns often stand in construction as the antecedents to other pronouns: as, "He also that is slothful in his work, is brother to him that is a great waster.

" To which abnormal possessive pronoun, Claude rejoined, "Not a bit!

He makes "ADJECTIVE PRONOUNS" a prominent division and leading title, in treating of the pronouns proper; defines the term in a manner peculiar to himself; prefers and uses it in all his parsing; and yet, by the third sentence of the story, the learner is conducted to this just conclusion: "Hence, such a thing as an adjective-pronoun cannot exist.

"We know not why it is," says St. Catherine of Genoa, "we feel an internal necessity of using the plural pronoun instead of the singular."

" Langag, "look;" -ka (suffix, second person nominative), "you;" pudung, "shut;" -nu (pronominal suffix), "your;" yan (demonstrative pronoun), "that," "those;" mata, "eyes.

"The substantive self is added to a pronoun; as, herself, himself, &c.; and when thus united, is called a reciprocal pronoun."Ib., p. 18.

Conjunctive pronouns.

It shall, for the promise holds, and what we have sown we shall also reap. (4) And, lastly, Christ prayed for individuals: "Simon, Simon, behold, Satan asked to have you,all of you," that is; the pronoun is plural "that he might sift you as wheat; but I made supplication for thee" "thee, Peter"; now the singular pronoun is used"that thy faith fail not."

And subsequently, as it appears, the religious sect that entertained a scruple about applying you to an individual, fell for the most part into an ungrammatical practice of putting thee for thou; making, in like manner, the objective pronoun to be both nominative and objective; or, at least, using it very commonly so in their conversation.

"There are five compound personal pronouns, which are derived from the five simple personal pronouns by adding to some of their cases the syllable self; as, my-self, thy-self, him-self, her-self, it-self.

Here who is of the second person, singular, masculine; and represents the antecedent pronoun thy: for thy is a pronoun, and not (as some writers will have it) an adjective.

Marivaux often omits the direct object pronoun in similar constructions.

Twenty years later, in fact, a writer in the "Critical Review" used the masculine pronoun to refer to the author of "Betsy Thoughtless."

who's she?" with an emphasis on that feminine, personal pronoun which was all the bitterer slur on the rest of womankind in that neighborhood, that he was so unconscious of the reflection it conveyed.

S. B. Goodenow accounts it a great error, to say that there is an adverb of place, when it is thus indefinite; and he chooses to call it an "indefinite pronoun," as, "'What is there here?''There is no peace.

[Footnote 4: The imperial pronoun "Tchin," me, is with very good taste supplied by I in these impassioned passages.

[Footnote 7: The nominative pronoun was not quite indispensable to the verb in Shakspere's time.

The Chippewa primitive pronouns are, Neen, Keen, and Ween (I, Thou, He or She).

Disjunctive pronouns.

10.The common import of this remarkable pronoun, what, is, as we see in the foregoing examples, twofold; but some instances occur, in which it does not appear to have this double construction, but to be simply declaratory; and many, in which the word is simply an adjective: as, "What a strange run of luck I have had to-day!"Columbian Orator, p. 293.

The possessives his, mine, thine, may be accounted either possessive pronouns, or the possessive cases of their respective personal pronouns."Ib., p. 40.

" To which abnormal possessive pronoun, Claude rejoined, "Not a bit!

REDUNDANT PRONOUNS.A vulgarism not often seen in writing, but common in conversation, consists in the use of an unnecessary pronoun after the subject of a sentence.

This canon not only leaves occasion for an additional one respecting pronouns of the possessive case, but it is also obscure in its phraseology, and too negligent of the various modes in which nouns may come together in English.