ADJECTIVE PRONOUNS
[Sidenote: _Function of adjective pronouns._]
131. Most of the words how to be considered are capable of a double
use,--they may be pure modifiers of nouns, or they may stand for
nouns. In the first use they are adjectives; in the second they retain
an adjective _meaning_, but have lost their adjective _use_. Primarily
they are adjectives, but in this function, or use, they are properly
classed as adjective pronouns.
The following are some examples of these:--
_Some_ say that the place was bewitched.--IRVING.
That mysterious realm where _each_ shall take
His chamber in the silent halls of death.
--BRYANT.
How happy is he born or taught
That serveth not _another's_ will.
--WOTTON
_That_ is more than any martyr can stand.--EMERSON.
[Sidenote: _Caution._]
[Sidenote: _Adjectives, not pronouns._]
Hence these words are like adjectives used as nouns, which we have
seen in such expressions as, "_The dead_ are there;" that is, a word,
in order to be an adjective pronoun, _must not modify any word,
expressed or understood_. It must come under the requirement of
pronouns, and _stand for a noun_. For instance, in the following
sentences--"The cubes are of stainless ivory, and on _each_ is
written, in letters of gold, '_Truth_;'" "You needs must play such
pranks as _these_;" "They will always have one bank to sun themselves
upon, and _another_ to get cool under;" "Where two men ride on a
horse, _one_ must ride behind"--the words italicized modify nouns
understood, necessarily thought of: thus, in the first, "each _cube_;"
in the second, "these _pranks_," in the others, "another _bank_," "one
_man_."
[Sidenote: _Classes of adjective pronouns._]
132. Adjective pronouns are divided into three classes:--
(1) DEMONSTRATIVE PRONOUNS, such as _this_, _that_, _the former_, etc.
(2) DISTRIBUTIVE PRONOUNS, such as _each_, _either_, _neither_, etc.
(3) NUMERAL PRONOUNS, as _some_, _any_, _few_, _many_, _none_, _all_,
etc.
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