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 pronouns.

137.  Some indefinite pronouns 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 PARSE PRONOUNS.

[Sidenote:  A reminder.]

138.  In parsing pronouns the student will need particularly to guard against the mistake of parsing words according to form instead of according to function or use.

Exercise.

Parse in full the pronouns 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 entitled for his unfurnished lodgings.