Harvey's Elementary Grammar and Composition · Lesson 30 · Part 1: Part I: The elementary course
30. Personal pronouns and person
Goal: Your child knows first, second and third person and can find personal pronouns.
You'll need
- The book, open to this lesson
- Paper and a pencil (or a slate)
What's in the book
Lesson 30 defines the three persons and personal pronouns, gives twelve sentences, three model analyses, a parsing model, blanks to fill and sentences to write.
The lesson, step by step
Review
Ask: What is an appositive? Give an example.
Who is talking?
SayI write. You read. They study.
Read:
The First Person denotes the speaker.
The Second Person denotes the person addressed.
The Third Person denotes the person or object spoken of.
Personal pronouns
Read:
Personal Pronouns both represent nouns and show by their form whether they are of the first, second, or third person.
Go through I, you, he, she, it, we, they, saying which person each is. The book also lists old forms like thou, thee and ye.
Find them
Point out the personal pronouns:
I borrowed his books.
They have sold their farms.
Thy fame hath preceded thee.
Fill and write
Fill blanks on page 49, such as:
Let there be no strife betwixt ___ and ___.
Then write sentences using personal pronouns, following the book's models: "We are scholars." "Henry admires them."
Check together
Check with the answers. Ask what person each pronoun is.
Use it today
The book says to point out the personal pronouns in your reading lesson. Do one paragraph.
Answers to the book's problems
Personal pronouns: Thou; I; She; I, her; They; Her; I, his; They, their; You, your; Ye; It, its; Thy, thee. Blanks: answers will vary, for example "Let there be no strife betwixt me and thee."
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