An English Grammar by J. W. (James Witt) Sewell;W. M. (William Malone) Baskervill
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_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. |
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