XXXIV.

_Fill the blanks with the proper pronouns:--_

1. The Second Regiment of the National Guard, ---- was sent to Pittsburg
during the strike, and ---- is now in camp at Gettysburg, has six
hundred members.
2. John started to school last Monday; we wish ---- success.
3. Proud damsel, ---- shalt be proudly met. I withdraw my pretensions
to ---- hand until I return from the war.
4. As ---- hast said, ---- lands are not endangered. But hear me before I
leave ----.
5. The cat was crouching on the piazza and we were watching ----.
Suddenly ---- tail twitched nervously and ---- prepared to spring.
6. "Ere you remark another's sin,
Bid ---- conscience look within."
7. At first one is likely to wonder where the boats are, since on entering
the grove ---- is (are) able to see only a small cabin.
8. Dost ---- talk of revenge? ---- conscience, it seems, has grown dull.
9. As a Christian ---- art obliged to forgive ---- enemy.
10. Did you never bear false witness against ---- neighbor?
11. The shepherd ran after a sheep and caught ---- just as ---- was
jumping over a hedge.
12. The hen gathered ---- brood under ---- wing.
13. This is a book which I have never read, but one ---- is recommended by
Mrs. M.

EXERCISE XXXV.

1. Write the following note in clear and correct form, using the
third person:--

"Mr. Smith presents his compliments to Mr. Jones, and finds he has a cap
which isn't mine. So, if you have a cap which isn't his, no doubt they are
the ones."[61]

2. Write a formal note in the third person, asking an acquaintance to dine
with you at a certain hour in order that you may consult with him about
some matter of importance.

3. Write a note in the third person accepting or declining this
invitation.

4. Write a formal note in the third person to some gentleman to
whom you have a letter of introduction, asking when it will be
convenient to have you call.

5. Write a notice in the third person offering a reward for the recovery
of a lost article.

SINGULAR or PLURAL PRONOUNS.[62]--The rule that a pronoun should
be in the same number as its antecedent is violated most commonly in
connection with such expressions as "any one," "each," "either," "every,"
"man after man," "neither," "nobody." Grammatically such expressions are
singular.

"He" ("his," "him") may stand for mankind in general and include women as
well as men.

[61] Quoted in "Foundations," p. 74.
[62] "Fo