Harvey's Elementary Grammar and Composition · Lesson 72–74 · Part 2: Part II: The parts of speech in full
60. Interrogative pronouns in full
Goal: Your child can parse interrogative pronouns and knows what the subsequent is.
You'll need
- The book, open to this lesson
- Paper and a pencil (or a slate)
What's in the book
Lesson 72 defines the interrogative pronouns and the subsequent (the part of the answer the pronoun stands for). Lessons 73 and 74 give the order of parsing, two models and seven questions.
The lesson, step by step
Review
Ask your child to decline "who."
The new idea
Read:
The Interrogative Pronouns are who, which, and what, when used in asking questions.
The Subsequent of an interrogative pronoun is that part of the answer which it represents.
Agreement
Read:
An interrogative pronoun must agree with its subsequent in gender, person, and number.
SayIn "What is that man?" "A lawyer," what stands for lawyer. If no answer is given, we can't tell its gender or number.
Models
Read the book's models: "Who invented gunpowder?" and "What is that man?" with the answer "A lawyer." The book says to apply the agreement rule, changing antecedent to subsequent.
Parse the questions
Parse the pronouns:
Who came with you?
Whom did you call? — Mary.
Which will you have? — The large one.
Use it today
Ask a question with whom today, and use it correctly.
Answers to the book's problems
Who: interrogative, subject of came, nominative (subsequent not given). Whose: interrogative, possessive, modifying horse. Whom: objective, object of call; subsequent Mary, so feminine, third, singular. What (did you say): objective, object of say. What (is that): nominative predicate; subsequent velocipede, neuter, third, singular. Which: objective, object of have; subsequent one. Who (told you): nominative, subject.
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