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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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