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EXERCISE 13 _Write sentences illustrating the correct use of the following simple and compound personal pronouns:_ Myself, me, I, them, themselves, him, himself, her, herself, itself, our, ourselves. EXERCISE 14 _Choose the correct form in the following sentences. Punctuate properly._ (_See_ Sec.108): 1. _Yourself you_ and John were mentioned 2. She told Mary and _me myself_ to go with _her herself_. 3. The book is for _you yourself_ and _I me myself_. 4. Henry and _I me myself_ are in the same class. 5. He thinks _you yourself_ and _I me myself_ should bring the books. 6. Our friends and _we us ourselves_ are going out to-night. 7. _Herself she_ and her husband have been sick. 8. _They themselves_ and their children have gone abroad. 9. You play the violin better than _he himself_. 10. The machine failed to work well, because _it itself_ and the engine were not properly adjusted to each other. 11. Let them do it _theirselves themselves_. 12. He came by _hisself himself_. 13. The teacher _hisself himself_ could not have done better. 14. I'll bring my gun, and you bring _your'n yours your_ own. 15. That book is _his'n his_. EXERCISE 15 _Fill the blanks in the following sentences with the proper emphatic or reflexive forms. Punctuate properly._ (_See_ Sec.108): 1. He ---- said so. 2. I ---- will do it. 3. We ---- will look after her. 4. That, I tell you, is ---- book. 5. It belongs to me ----. 6. Those books are my ----. 7. Let them ---- pay for it. 8. The horse is to be for ---- use. 9. The horse is to be for the use of ----. 10. He said it to ----. 11. He deceived ----. 12. I do not wish ---- to be prominent. 32. The COMPOUND RELATIVE PRONOUNS are formed by adding _ever, so_, or _soever_ to the relative pronouns, _who, which_, and _what_; as, _whoever, whatever, whomever, whosoever, whoso, whosoever_, etc. It will be noted that _whoever, whosoever_, and _whoso_ have objective forms, _whomever, whomsoever_, and _whomso_; and possessive forms, _whosoever, whosesoever_, and _whoseso_. These forms must be used whenever the objective or possessive case is demanded. Thus, one should say, _I will give it to WHOMEVER I find there_. (See Sec.29 and Note 3.) EXERCISE 16 _Fill the following blanks with the proper forms of the compound relatives:_ 1. We will refer the question to ---- you may name. 2. ---- it may have been, it was not h
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