LESSON XXVIII.

PARSING.

To parse a pronoun is to state the class to which it belongs, its gender, person, number, case, and its grammatical relation to other words in the sentence.

Parse all the pronouns in the following sentences:—

1.	I have the knife which you gave me.
2.	He saw the letter that I wrote.
3.	Who told you they did it?
4.	Few shall meet where many part.—Campbell.
5.	He is the freeman whom the truth makes free.—Cowper.
6.	There’s a divinity that shapes our ends,
	Rough-hew them as we will.—Shakespeare.
7.	I have seen him buy such bargains as would amaze one.—Goldsmith.
8.	Ye, therefore, who love mercy, teach your sons
	To love it too.—Cowper.
9.	I dare do all that may become a man,
	Who dares do more is none.—Shakespeare.
10.	Breathes there a man with soul so dead,
	Who never to himself hath said,
	This is my own, my native land.—Scott.

Model:—I have the knife which you gave me.

I, a personal pronoun; masculine or feminine gender; first person; singular number; nominative case, subject of have.

which, a relative pronoun; third person; singular number; objective case, direct object of the verb gave.

you, a personal pronoun; masculine or feminine gender; second person; singular or plural number; nominative case, subject of the verb gave.

me, a personal pronoun; masculine or feminine gender; first person; singular number; objective case, indirect object of the verb gave.