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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