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NUMERAL PRONOUNS


[Sidenote: _Definition and examples_.]


135. The NUMERAL PRONOUNS are those which stand for an uncertain

number or quantity of persons or things.


The following sentences contain numeral pronouns:--


Trusting too much to _others'_ care is the ruin of _many_.


'Tis of no importance how large his house, you quickly come to

the end of _all_.


_Another_ opposes him with sound argument.


It is as if _one_ should be so enthusiastic a lover of poetry as

to care nothing for Homer or Milton.


There were plenty _more_ for him to fall in company with, as

_some_ of the rangers had gone astray.


The Soldan, imbued, as _most_ were, with the superstitions of his

time, paused over a horoscope.


If those [taxes] were the only _ones_ we had to pay, we might the

more easily discharge them.


_Much_ might be said on both sides.


If hand of mine _another's_ task has lightened.

It felt the guidance that it does not claim.

So perish _all_ whose breast ne'er learned to glow

For _others_' good, or melt for _others_' woe.


_None_ shall rule but the humble.


[Sidenote: _Some inflected._]


It will be noticed that some of these are inflected for case and

number; such as _one other_, _another_.


The word _one_ has a reflexive form; for example,--


[Sidenote: One _reflexive_.]


The best way to punish _oneself_ for doing ill seems to me to go

and do good.--KINGSLEY.


The lines sound so prettily to _one's self_. HOLMES.


Exercise


Find sentences containing ten numeral pronouns.




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