Select the personal pronouns in the following sentences, state the
person of each, and the noun to which each pronoun of the third person
refers:—
1. I visited my friend and helped him with his work.
2. We bought some nuts and gave them to the children.
3. This woman has lost her purse.
4. I met two boys and they told me where to find you.
5. I had a little daughter,
And she was given to me
To lead me gently backward
To the Heavenly Father’s knee.
That I by the force of nature,
Might in some dim wise divine
The depths of His infinite patience
To this wayward soul of mine.—_Lowell._
_Note._—The possessive forms _my_, _thy_, _her_, _our_, _your_
and _their_ are used with nouns, and the forms _mine_, _thine_,
_hers_, _ours_, _yours_ and _theirs_ are used alone; as, That is
_my_ hat. That hat is _mine_.
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=LESSON XXIII.=