An English Grammar

A personal pronoun is a pronoun which by its form distinguishes the relation of person.

A neuter pronoun is a pronoun that does not distinguish the property of gender, and has a neuter noun as its antecedent.

A compound personal pronoun is a personal pronoun compounded with the word self.

A compound neuter pronoun is a neuter pronoun compounded with the word self.

An emphatic or intensive pronoun is a compound personal or neuter pronoun used to emphasize that which is named by a noun, or that which is represented by the pronoun itself or in connection with a pronoun implied.

A reflexive pronoun is a compound personal or neuter pronoun used to refer to the same person or thing designated by the subject of the verb of the

sentence.

A demonstrative pronoun is a pronoun that directs attention to that which it is used to represent.

An indefinite pronoun is a pronoun used to refer to any or to no specific person or thing, or to an indefinite quantity or number of persons or things.

A compound indefinite pronoun is an indefinité pronoun compounded with the word thing or body, or with another indefinite pronoun.

An interrogative pronoun is a pronoun used in asking a question.

An indirect sentence is an interrogative sentence used as a noun clause.

A relative pronoun is a pronoun that is used to connect the sentence which it introduces to the antecedent to which it refers.

A restrictive relative pronoun is a pronoun that introduces a sentence that defines or restricts the meaning of its antecedent.

A supplementary relative pronoun is a pronoun that is used to introduce a sentence that states an additional fact about its antecedent.

An indefinite relative pronoun is a relative pronoun compounded with the endings so, ever, and

soever.

OUTLINE CLASSIFICATION OF PRONOUNS.

I. Classes.

1. Personal and neuter.

1. Simple.

2. Compound.

a. Intensive or Emphatic.

b. Reflexive.

2. Demonstrative.

3. Indefinite.

1. Simple.

2. Compound.

4. Interrogative.

5. Relative.

1. Simple.

2. Indefinite or compound.

II. Gender
et seq.)

same as Nouns. (See page 63

III. Number-same as Nouns. (See page 70 et seq.)

IV. Case -same as Nouns. (See page 77 et seq.)

See also Outline Classification of Nouns, page 101.

Adjectives.

Predicate

III. ADJECTIVES.

A. CLASSES.

173. An adjective is a word used with a noun to designate more definitely that for which the noun stands. (See 46.)

174. An adjective may be used also with pronouns or constructions used as equivalents of

nouns.

An adjective may occupy different positions in the sentence with reference to its noun.

1. Speech is great, but silence is greater. Carlyle.
2. Joy is the best of wine. Eliot.

3. An infatuated man is not only foolish but wild.

Note that each of the adjectives in full-faced type in the foregoing sentences follows the copulative verb with which it is joined to form the predicate, and refers to the subject noun with which it is used.

175. Such adjectives are called predicate adjecAdjectives. tives. (See 49.)

1. A loving heart is the truest wisdom. Dickens.

2. Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds. Alcott.

3. The smallest act of charity shall stand us in great stead. Atterbury.

Note that each of the adjectives in full-faced type in the foregoing sentences precedes the noun with which it is used.

176. Such adjectives are called attributive adjec- Attributive

tives.

1. This power of woman, natural to her, never sleeps until modesty is gone. Addison.

2. A female friend, amiable, clever, and devoted, is a possession more valuable than parks and palaces.- Beaconsfield. 3. He has an intellectual vision, clear, wide, piercing, methodical. — Carlyle.

Note that each of the adjectives in full-faced type in the foregoing sentences directly follows the noun with which it is used.

177. Such adjectives are called appositive adjec

tives.

Name the predicate, the attributive, and the appositive adjectives in the following sentences:

Her voice was ever soft,

Gentle and low, an excellent thing in woman.