First Grammar Lessons: Part IV, Lesson I

Lesson I

When we speak of persons and things, we do not always use their names.

When we speak to people, we very seldom do so.

And when we speak of our own selves, we never do so.

The reason we have a choice is that there is a class of words for no other purpose but to be used instead, so that we may not have to say names again and again.

These words are called For-names, or in the Latin tongue, Pronouns.

To be learnt.

Pronouns are used for nouns, that we may not have to say names again and again.

Exercise I

1. Give the pronouns that you can use instead of the following:

The table, the dog, the trees, the butterflies, Mary, paint-box, the elephant, the King, Tom, boys.

2. Supply pronouns in the blanks:

Mary brought a little kitten to school and _____ and Mother searched for _____ all the morning.
Tom took a book from the table and _____ carried _____ into _____ house.
The picture fell on the vase and _____broke _____all to pieces.

3. Make three sentences about each of the following, using the right pronouns:

Jack, chickens, such as;
He is clever, they are very small.

4. Put six nouns in the place of each pronoun in the given sentences:

They are very large.
(Apples, boats, hats, holes, leaves, are very large.)
She is tall.
It is long.

5. Find the pronouns in a page of a book.