6. What is mine is also yours.

7. Let there be no strife between me and thee.

8. We visited them at their country home.

9. Our house is not so large as theirs.

10. It has brought us good luck.

11. He spoke of its beauty to them.

12. And thine shall be the glory.

13. They bought that old house of ours.

14. I told his brother that you had seen him.

15. Thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God.
16. We have met the enemy, and they are ours.

Exercise 2. Write two sentences containing personal pronouns of the first person; two sentences containing personal pronouns of the second person; two sentences containing personal pronouns of the third person.

LESSON 50. — DECLENSION OF PERSONAL PRONOUNS

It has been shown that the forms of the pronouns, as well as of other words, vary according to use. The variation of the form of words according to use or relation in a sentence is called inflection. The English language is not a highly inflected language, as are the ancient languages and some of the modern ones, but it has some inflected forms. When we arrange the cases of a noun or a pronoun in the two numbers we are said to decline it.

The orderly arrangement of the case forms of nouns or pronouns in the singular and plural number is called declension.

The declension of the personal pronouns is as follows:

NOTE. The pronoun I is always written with a capital letter.

NOTE. Grammatically speaking, you is always in the plural number; but in ordinary conversation it is used in the singular number. Its use in the sentence to denote one or more persons will determine the number. Thou is rarely used in speaking.

NOTE. Do not use an apostrophe with the possessive form of the personal pronouns.

Exercise. In the following sentences name the personal pronouns and tell the person, number, and case of each:

1. Thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.

2. Ye crags and peaks, I am with you once again.

3. Thou art mighty, and we worship thee.

4. She gave way to her grief when he told her of it.

5. Let us love him because he has loved us.

6. Hers or his it matters not; they shall now be mine.

7. Our carriage took them to their hotel.

8. Your horses are not so good as ours.
9. My lessons are longer than yours.
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10. Her voice was softer than his when she spoke to him.
11. He took his coat with him.

12. Is this picture yours or mine?
13. Susan has lost her ribbon.

14. All of us love to do our duty.

15. I am indebted to him for all I have.

16. My country, 'tis of thee!

17. He went away and left them to her care.

LESSON 51.

COMPOUND PERSONAL PRONOUNS

The personal pronouns are joined to the words self and selves to form the compound personal pronouns. The compound personal pronouns are myself, thyself, himself, herself, itself, yourself, ourselves, yourselves, themselves. They are mainly used for emphasis.

Compound personal pronouns may be :

1. In the nominative case used in apposition with a noun or another pronoun.

I did it myself.

They themselves told me.

He himself says so.

She took it herself.

2. In the objective case used in apposition with a noun

or a pronoun.

I saw the blood itself.

I heard the noise itself.

He told it to me myself.

It is all for you yourself.

3. In the objective case used reflexively.

He has cut himself.

Help yourself, my friend.

The people seat themselves.

She dressed herself quickly.

4. In the objective case after a preposition or as the indirect object.

He bought it for himself.
I gave myself a knife.

She put the dress on herself.
They found themselves a house.

Exercise 1. Name the compound personal pronouns

in these sentences and tell their cases:

1. Napoleon crowned himself king.
2. I myself sometimes despise myself.
3. Know then thyself.

4. They ran themselves nearly to death.
5. Penitents often scourge themselves.
6. They found the footprints themselves.
7. A greedy boy will eat himself sick.
8. I have given myself plenty of time.
9. He worried himself into a fever.
10. You do yourself a great wrong, sir.

11. The fault is not in our stars, but in ourselves.

12. He gave himself up for lost.

13. We know better than that ourselves.

14. She drove the four horses herself.

15. A suicide is one who kills himself.

16. Careless hunters often shoot themselves.

Exercise 2. Never use the expressions hisself and theirselves, but always say himself and themselves. Complete these sentences:

LESSON 52. USES OF IT

The pronoun it is used in a variety of ways.

1. It is used to refer to antecedents whose gender is not given.

The child knows its mother. The eagle builds its nest.

2. It is used as an introductory word and when the real subject follows the verb.

It is important for you to come. It is I; be not afraid.

3. It is used as an impersonal subject.
It is cold. It has rained very hard.

4. It is used as an impersonal object.

You cannot come it over me.

What fun to rough it for a week!

5. It is used as a substitute for a group of words. He said it will rain, but I doubt it.

To hunt is great sport, and I like it.

Exercise. In the following sentences tell how it is used:

1. He tried to lord it over us all.

2. Dreadful is the thought of death. Avoid it.
3. It is a wise colt that knows its own father.

4. It has been dry and dusty for a month.
5. How happens it that you do not know it?
6. It is not far. Suppose we walk it.

7. It may be as you say, but I doubt it.

8. It is well to know how; it is better to do.

9. My master leads a dog's life of it.

10. It is said that you will not be there.

11. We had to foot it over mountain and plain.

12. It grew wondrous cold.

13. They said they saw a ghost, but I doubt it.

14. It looks like rain. What do you think of it?

15. The clouds threaten. I like it not.
16. Trip it lightly as you go.