EXERCISE IV.—­PRONOUNS.

1.  Write the nominative plural of the following pronouns:  I, thou, he, she, it, who, which, what, that, as.

2.  Write the objective singular of the following pronouns:  I, thou, he, she, it, who, which, what, that, as.

3.  Write the following words in their customary and proper forms:  he’s, her’s, it’s, our’s, your’s, their’s, who’s, myself, hisself, theirselves.

4.  Write together in declension the following pronouns, according to the agreement of each two:  I myself, thou thyself, he himself, she herself it itself.

5.  Rewrite the following sentences, and make them good English:  “Nor is the criminal binding any thing:  but was, his self, being bound.”—­Wrights Gram., p. 193.  “The writer surely did not mean, that the work was preparing its self.”—­Ib. “May, or can, in its self, denotes possibility.”—­Ib., p. 216.  “Consequently those in connection with the remaining pronouns respectively, should be written,—­he, his self;—­she, her self;—­ye or you, your selves; they, their selves.”—­Ib., p. 154.  “Lest their beacons be lost to the view, and their selves wrecked on the shoals of destruction.”—­Ib., p. 155.  “In the regal style, as generally in the second person, the singular noun is added to the plural pronoun, ourself.”—­Churchill’s Gram., p. 78.  “Each has it’s peculiar advantages.”—­Ib., p. 283.  “Who his ownself bare our sins in his own body on the tree.”—­The Friend, iv, 302.  “It is difficult to look inwardly on oneself.”—­Journal of N. Y. Lit.  Convention. p. 287.

EXERCISE V.—­VERBS.

1.  Write the four principal parts of each of the following verbs:  slip, thrill, caress, force, release, crop, try, die, obey, delay, destroy, deny, buy, come, do, feed, lie, say, huzza, pretend, deliver, arrest.

2.  Write the following preterits, each in its appropriate form:  exprest, stript, dropt, jumpt, prest, topt, whipt, linkt, propt, fixt, crost, stept, distrest, gusht, confest, snapt, skipt, kist, discust, tackt.

3.  Write the following verbs in the indicative mood, present tense, second person singular:  move, strive, please, reach, confess, fix, deny, survive, know, go, outdo, close, lose, pursue, defend, surpass, conquer, deliver, enlighten, protect, polish.

4.  Write the following verbs in the indicative mood, present tense, third person singular:  leave, seem, search, impeach, fear, redress, comply, bestow, do, woo, sue, view, allure, rely, beset, release, be, bias, compel, degrade, efface, garnish, handle, induce.

5.  Write the following verbs in the subjunctive mood, present tense, in the three persons singular:  serve, shun, turn, learn, find, wish, throw, dream, possess, detest, disarm, allow, pretend, expose, alarm, deprive, transgress.