and give the antecedent of each. each pronoun to its antecedent.

Find the clause joined by

1. Ernest's mother told him a story that her mother had told her.

2. The children who grew to manhood and womanhood with the Great Stone Face before their eyes were happy.

3. There were the vast lips, which, if they could have spoken, would have rolled their thunder accents from one end of the valley to the other.

4. The boy whom the Great Stone Face taught learned many valuable lessons.

5. Ernest did what he could to help his mother.

6. Tom and Maggie went to the Round Pool which the floods had made.

7. Tom was the only person who did not feel surprised at Maggie's cleverness.

8. He threw her line into the pool, which was almost a perfect round.

9. Tom drew out her line, which held a large fish.

LESSON 120 THE INTERROGATIVE PRONOUN

1. Development.

1. Who went fishing?

2. Of what did they talk?

3. By whom was this story written?

4. Which will you take?

Who, whom, which, and what are used instead of nouns in the preceding sentences and are, therefore, pronouns. Since they are used in asking questions, they are called interrogative pronouns.

What other pronouns are used in these sentences? To what class does each of them belong?

Learn:

Who, whom, which, and what, when used instead of nouns in asking questions, are called interrogative pronouns. Remember that what and which, when used with nouns, are adjectives. Compare the following:

ADJECTIVE

1. What book did you buy?

2. Which street is the prettier?

Tell how each pronoun is

used in the following sen

tences. Tell the class to which each pronoun belongs.

1. Who bought the fishing rods?

2. Whom did Maggie wish to please?

3. What were they carrying?

4. Where did they go?

5. The Round Pool was the place which Tom had chosen. 6. Which did he give Maggie?

7. Maggie knew from whom the rod came.

8. Of what was Tom thinking?

9. To whom did he speak? 10. What books did he read? 11. What did Maggie read?

2. Written Exercise.

Write four sentences, each containing an interrogative pronoun. Draw a line under each interrogative pronoun.

3. Write, Wrote, Written.

Read these sentences, filling the blanks with the proper form of the verb write:

1. I

2. I have
3. He

4. He has

5. You

a letter to my cousin yesterday.

to him many times.

to his father last night.

to him every day. very well yesterday.

Be prepared to discuss some current event of local or general interest such as an accident or a robbery; or to report upon some story or book you have read recently.

LESSON 122-CURRENT EVENTS

Write the discussion or report you gave in the preceding lesson. Test your work by the form given on page 5.

LESSON 123 - THE DEMONSTRATIVE PRONOUN

1. Development.

1. This book is mine.
2. This is my book.

3. That book is yours.
4. That is your book.

5. These books are mine.

6.

These are my books. 7. Those books are yours.

8. Those are your books.

Select the italicized words in the above sentences that modify nouns. What do we call such words?

Select the italicized words in the above sentences that are used instead of nouns. Tell the antecedent of each. This, these, that, and those point out persons or things. When one of these words takes the place of a noun it is called a demonstrative pronoun.

Learn:

When this, that, these, or those takes the place of a noun, it is called a demonstrative pronoun.

Select all the adjectives in the preceding sentences and tell how each is used.

Repeat the following sentences to yourself several times and be prepared to take part in the rapid repetition of them in class, each member giving a sentence:

1. Those books are mine.

2. Those flowers are beautiful.
3. Those robins are very tame.
4. Those trees are oaks.

5. Those blossoms are fragrant.

6. Those are my books.

7. Those are beautiful flowers.
8. Those are tame robins.

9. Those are oak trees.

10. Those are fragrant blossoms.

Notice that in the first five sentences above, those is an adjective; in the last five, a pronoun.

Answer the following questions, using these or those in complete sentences:

1. Which books will you take?

2. What flowers are those?
3. Which trees are maples?
4. Which are your books?
5. Which trees did you plant?
6. Which pictures are yours?

7. Which of the children are going?

8. Which furs do you like best?

Remember that them is a personal pronoun and is never used to modify a noun. Them should never be used as the subject of a sentence.

2. Written Exercise.

Write four sentences containing this, these, that, and those used as demonstrative pronouns.

Write four sentences that contain this, these, that, and those used as adjectives.

LESSON 124-NOUNS, PRONOUNS, and ADJECTIVES

1. Practice Work.

Select the nouns in the following sentences and tell how each is used.

Classify the pronouns and tell how each is used.
Select the adjectives and tell how each is used.

1. Tom knew all about worms and fish.

2. Maggie thought that this sort of knowledge was very wonderful.

3. They were going to the Round Pool.

4. This was a favorite spot.

5. Maggie had forgotten all about the fish.

6. That was the reason that she was looking at the water.

7. "What is it, Tom?" she said.

8. Presently Tom drew out her line.

9. That line was Tom's present to her.

10. He had saved his money to buy it for her.

11. The other line was his.

12. Mr. Tulliver, the children's father, was always kind. 13. Maggie listened to the light, dipping sounds that were made by the rising fish.

14. Who saw that she had a bite?

2. Run, Come.

Read the following sentences:

1. I ran yesterday.
2. You ran yesterday.
3. He ran yesterday.
4. They ran yesterday.
5. We ran yesterday.

6. I ran last night.
7. You ran last night.
8. He ran last night.
9. They ran last night.
10. We ran last night.

Read the sentences again, a little more rapidly.
Read the sentences again, more rapidly still.