An English Grammar Part 26

_Every one_ knows how laborious the usual method is of attaining to arts and sciences.

_Nothing_ sheds more honor on our early history than the impression which these measures everywhere produced in America.

Let us also perform _something_ worthy to be remembered.

William of Orange was more than _anything else_ a religious man.

Frederick was discerned to be a purchaser of _everything_ that _n.o.body else_ would buy.

These other souls draw me as _nothing else_ can.

The genius that created it now creates _somewhat else_.

_Every one else_ stood still at his post.

That is perfectly true: I did not want _anybody else's_ authority to write as I did.

_They_ indefinite means people in general; as,--

At lovers' perjuries, _they_ say, Jove laughs.--SHAKESPEARE.

_What_ indefinite is used in the expression "I tell you _what_." It means _something_, and was indefinite in Old English.

Now, in building of chaises, I tell you _what_, There is always somewhere a weakest spot.

Exercise.--Find sentences with six indefinite p.r.o.nouns.

137. Some indefinite p.r.o.nouns are inflected for case, as shown in the words _everybody's_, _anybody else's_, etc.

See also "Syntax" (Sec. 426) as to the possessive case of the forms with _else_.

HOW TO Pa.r.s.e p.r.o.nOUNS.

[Sidenote: _A reminder._]

138. In parsing p.r.o.nouns the student will need particularly to guard against the mistake of parsing words according to _form_ instead of according to function or use.

Exercise.

Pa.r.s.e in full the p.r.o.nouns in the following sentences:--

1. She could not help laughing at the vile English into which they were translated.

2. Our readers probably remember what Mrs. Hutchinson tells us of herself.

3. Whoever deals with M. de Witt must go the plain way that he pretends to, in his negotiations.

4. Some of them from whom nothing was to be got, were suffered to depart; but those from whom it was thought that anything could be extorted were treated with execrable cruelty.

5. All was now ready for action.

6. Scarcely had the mutiny broken up when he was himself again.

7. He came back determined to put everything to the hazard.

8. Nothing is more clear than that a general ought to be the servant of his government, and of no other.

9. Others did the same thing, but not to quite so enormous an extent.

10. On reaching the approach to this about sunset of a beautiful evening in June, I first found myself among the mountains,--a feature of natural scenery for which, from my earliest days, it was not extravagant to say that I hungered and thirsted.

11. I speak of that part which chiefly it is that I know.

12. A smaller sum I had given to my friend the attorney (who was connected with the money lenders as their lawyer), to which, indeed, he was ent.i.tled for his unfurnished lodgings.

13. Whatever power the law gave them would be enforced against me to the utmost.

14. O thou that rollest above, round as the s.h.i.+eld of my fathers!

15. But there are more than you ever heard of who die of grief in this island of ours.

16. But amongst themselves is no voice nor sound.

17. For this did G.o.d send her a great reward.

18. The table was good; but that was exactly what Kate cared little about.

19. Who and what was Milton? That is to say, what is the place which he fills in his own vernacular literature?

20. These hopes are mine as much as theirs.

21. What else am I who laughed or wept yesterday, who slept last night like a corpse?

22. I who alone am, I who see nothing in nature whose existence I can affirm with equal evidence to my own, behold now the semblance of my being, in all its height, variety, and curiosity reiterated in a foreign form.

23. What hand but would a garland cull For thee who art so beautiful?

24. And I had done a h.e.l.lish thing, And it would work 'em woe.

25. Whatever he knows and thinks, whatever in his apprehension is worth doing, that let him communicate.

26. Rip Van Winkle was one of those foolish, well-oiled dispositions, who take the world easy, eat white bread or brown, whichever can be got with least thought or trouble.