Harvey's Elementary Grammar and Composition · Lesson 75–76 · Part 2: Part II: The parts of speech in full
61. False syntax: pronoun cautions
Goal: Your child corrects five kinds of pronoun mistakes.
You'll need
- The book, open to this lesson
- Paper and a pencil (or a slate)
What's in the book
Lesson 75 defines false syntax. Lesson 76 gives five cautions about pronouns, with example sentences to correct.
The lesson, step by step
Review
Ask: What is the subsequent of an interrogative pronoun?
What false syntax is
Read:
False Syntax is any violation of the laws of good usage, in the application of words or the construction of sentences.
SayIt just means mistakes in putting sentences together.
Cautions I and II
Read:
Do not omit the subjects of clauses or declarative sentences.
Do not use who as the object of a transitive verb or preposition.
Fix:
Glad you have come.
He is a fellow who I do not like.
Cautions III and IV
Read:
The second person should precede the third, and the third the first.
Do not use a pronoun and its antecedent as subjects of the same proposition.
Fix:
I and he went skating.
Mr. Kellogg he has bought our farm.
Caution V
Read:
Avoid the use of different kinds of pronouns in the same construction.
Look at the book's examples for this caution and fix them together.
Write the corrections
Write corrected versions of two sentences from each caution.
Use it today
Notice when someone says "who" where the book wants "whom." (Today many people do; the book is strict.)
Answers to the book's problems
I am glad you have come. I hope you will remain long with us. What do you say? 'Tis a poor school that can't keep itself half an hour. It was Johnson who saved the drowning man. After a long tramp, I felt very much fatigued. Do you know whom you are talking to? He is a fellow whom I do not like. Tell me whom you work for. You and he are in the same class. You and I will not whisper. He and I went skating. Mr. Kellogg has bought our farm. Many words darken speech. The boys all staid in at recess. The horse ran, and the man yelled "whoa."
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