Harvey's Elementary Grammar and Composition · Lesson 63–64 · Part 2: Part II: The parts of speech in full
57. Parsing personal pronouns
Goal: Your child parses personal pronouns, naming the antecedent and the rule of agreement.
You'll need
- The book, open to this lesson
- Paper and a pencil (or a slate)
What's in the book
Lesson 63 gives the order for parsing a personal pronoun with the rule of agreement. Lesson 64 gives models, sentences to analyze and parse, and a short composition on the Eagle.
The lesson, step by step
Review
Ask your child to decline "she."
The order
The book's order: A pronoun, and why? Personal, and why? What is its antecedent? Gender, person and number? Decline it. Case, and why?
Read the rule:
Pronouns must agree with their antecedents in gender, person, and number.
Follow the models
Read the book's models:
I see them on their winding way.
Myself is a pronoun; personal; compound: its antecedent is the name, understood, of the speaker.
Parse
Parse the personal pronouns in a few of these:
You and he are my friends.
The soldiers helped themselves.
He himself hid your slate.
Write
The book asks your child to write the first two sentences of a composition on the Eagle, parse the personal pronouns, then finish the composition.
Use it today
Pick a pronoun from today's reading and find its antecedent.
Answers to the book's problems
Examples: You: personal, second person, plural form, nominative (subject). he: personal, masculine, third, singular, nominative. my: first person, singular, possessive. them (I saw them): third, plural, objective. themselves: compound personal, antecedent soldiers, third, plural, objective. himself: compound, antecedent He, in apposition with He, nominative. thee: second, singular, objective (object of for).
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