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"Graded Lessons in English an Elementary English Grammar Consisting of One Hundred Practical Lessons, Carefully Graded and Adapted to the Class-Room"

--+_You_ whispered. +T.--+What word would be used instead of the name of
the boy _to_ whom I spoke? +P.--+_You_.
+T.--+Suppose that, without using his name, I had told you what he did,
what should I have said? +P.--+_He_ whispered. +T.--+What word would have
been used instead of the name of the boy _of_ whom I spoke? +P.--+_He_.
(Repeat these questions and suppose the pupil to be a girl.)
+T.--+If I should tell that boy to close his book, when his book was
already closed, what would he say without mentioning the word book?
+P.--+_It_ is closed.
+T.--+If I should accuse several of you of whispering, and one should speak
for himself and for the others whispering with him, what would he say? _We_
whispered.
+T--+Suppose that a boy should inform me that all of the boys on that seat
had whispered, what would he say? +P.--+_They_ whispered.
_I, you, he, she, it, we_, and _they_ are not names, but they are used
instead of names. We call such words +Pronouns+.
+DEFINITION.--A _Pronoun_ is a word used for a noun+.
+CAPITAL LETTERS--RULE.


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