DISTRIBUTIVE PRONOUNS
[Sidenote: _Definition and examples._]
134. The DISTRIBUTIVE PRONOUNS are those which stand for the names
of persons or things considered singly.
[Sidenote: _Simple._]
Some of these are _simple_ pronouns; for example,--
They stood, or sat, or reclined, as seemed good to _each_.
As two yoke devils sworn to _other's_ purpose.
Their minds accorded into one strain, and made delightful music
which _neither_ could have claimed as all his own.
[Sidenote: _Compound_.]
Two are compound pronouns,--_each other_, _one another_. They may be
separated into two adjective pronouns; as,
We violated our reverence _each_ for _the other's_ soul.
--HAWTHORNE.
More frequently they are considered as one pronoun.
They led one another, as it were, into a high pavilion of their
thoughts.--HAWTHORNE.
Men take each other's measure when they react.--EMERSON.
Exercise
Find sentences containing three distributive pronouns.
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