EXERCISE I.

Select the pronouns in the following sentences, and state the noun for

which each is used:—

1. Men find plants where they least expect them.

2. The parents returned home when they found their child.

3. The king took the hand of his friend and pressed it to his

heart.

4. A boy who is always grumbling will lose the friends that he

has, and will not make many new ones.

5. The ball lies where you left it.

6. The boy’s father was anxious to send him to college, and

therefore he studied the Latin grammar till he could bear

it no longer.

7. Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot

O’er the grave where our hero we buried.

8. As John and Charles were walking by the river, they both

fell into it.

9. Tell me what brings you, gentle youth, to Rome;

To make myself a scholar, sir, I come.

10. Then the maiden clasped her hands and prayed

That savèd she might be;

And she thought of Him who stilled the wave

On the Lake of Galilee.

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