The pronoun

Exercise 1. Point out the pronouns in the following sentences; define the class each belongs to, comment on their grammatical distinctions.

1. I myself had been the first sufferer from the disease.(Christie)

2. She seemed to be the perfectly normal English girl, with high spirits, a great desire to enjoy herself, and an excellent temper. (Maugham)

3. The father and mother seem very well satisfied with one another’s company. (Maugham)

4. She is a most charming young lady indeed. Lady Catherine herself says so. (Austen)

5. She had none of the determination that gave her mother’s face so much character, but resembled her father; she had his dark eyes and slightly aquiline nose, and his look of rather weak good nature. (Maugham)

6. And you think this man is the one who has taken the swim-suit? (Chase)

7. They looked at each other, embarrassed. “What are you doing?” said Mrs. Upjohn, advancing a little closer. (Christie)

8. Will you look around this room and tell me if you see that person here now? (Christie)

9. It’s a little like her – but I don’t think it’s her. (Christie)

10. It was I who taught your Aunt Maureen to make an omelette. (Christie)

11. It was strictly forbidden for the girls to go into each other’s rooms, and the only mistress who did so was Miss Johnson. (Christie)

12. “What are you waiting for?” – “For the Olympia (a ship). She is due on her return trip from New York on Tuesday. (Christie)

13. They reappear in New York a half hour after the Olympia gets in, and according to one man, whom nobody listens to, actually before she gets in. The Gigantic leaves Southampton on the same day as the Olympia, and she holds the record to the Atlantic. (Christie)

14. Were those two on good terms with each other? (Christie)

15. I don’t think anyone in the hotel heard anything. (Christie)

16. You did not see anything in anybody’s hand? (Christie)

17. In any case, he had been facing the other way towards the front car. He had heard nothing – no cry or exclamation. No one had come down the car except the stewards. (Christie)

18. It’s their job more than ours. (Christie)

19. What did you think of us all? (Christie)

20. Meekness doesn’t pay in this life, but I don’t think we’re either of us troubled by too much of that. (Christie)

21. But my ideas are running in a slightly different channel than yours. (Christie)

22. Everyone’s eyes would at once be drawn to the window. Everyone would have his attention fixed on a certain point. A man in such a moment might whip out a dagger and stab another man, and nobody would see him do it. (Christie)

23. Did either of you two notice a wasp flying about the plane? (Christie)

24. Well, that will be all for now. (Christie)

25. That’s right. That’s when I took her her coffee. (Christie)

26. I mean, blowpipes and poisoned darts in an aeroplane – well, it insults one’s intelligence.

27. “But I hope there is no strong attachment on either side,” said Jane. “I am sure there is not on his.” (Austen)

28. As soon as all had eaten…the carriage was ordered; and the whole party, with all their boxes, workbags and parcels…were seated in it. (Austen)

29. Both these people were resolved to treat Mr. Poly very well, and to help his exceptional incompetence in every possible way. (Wells)

30. There is nothing for any of us to do. (Snow)

31. She hesitated a moment, and then sat down beside me, and laid her hand on mine.(Dickens)

32. He seemed to get prouder and prouder over each item of his own deficiency. (Leacock).

33. What was in this girl that reminded him of that one with whom he had lived but two years, and mourned fifteen? (Galsworthy)

34. It would take me several weeks to recoup from the wheel once I had got rid of O’Brian and the chances were that his successor would find out what was going on at the nightclub. (Chase)