I. Parse the personal pronouns in the following sentences.
As you work through these exercises, use the informatiion on the Parsing Model for Pronouns page. 

  1. Can it be that America, under such circumstances, can betray herself? That she is to be added to the catalogue of republics, the inscription upon whose ruins is, “They were, but they are not!” Forbid it, my countrymen I forbid it, Heaven!
    Daniel Webster
  2. It is a noble faculty of our nature which enables us to connect our thoughts, our sympathies, and our happiness, with what is distant in place or time.
    Daniel Webster
  3. His praise, ye winds that from five quarters blow,
    Breathe soft or loud; and wave your tops, ye pines.
    John Milton
  4. Love took up the glass of Time,
             and turned it in his glowing hands,
    Every moment, lightly shaken,
             ran itself in golden sands.
    Alfred Lord Tennyson.
  5. Not theirs the blame who furnish forth the treat, But ours who throng the board and grossly eat.
    Sprague

II.  Give the person, the number, the gender, when it can be determined by the form, and the case of the following pronouns.

  1. I
  2. he
  3. his
  4. hers
  5. mine
  6. you
  7. they
  8. them
  9. us
  10. we
  11. myself
  12. himself
  13. they
  14. herself
  15. me
  16. themselves
  17. ourselves
  18. my
  19. your
  20. herself
  21. yourselves



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