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