NUMERAL PRONOUNS.
Definition and examples.
135. The NUMERAL PRONOUNS are those which stand for an uncertain number or quantity of persons or things.
The following sentences contain numeral pronouns:—
Trusting too much to others' care is the ruin of many.
'Tis of no importance how large his house, you quickly come to the end of all.
Another opposes him with sound argument.
It is as if one should be so enthusiastic a lover of poetry as to care nothing for Homer or Milton.
There were plenty more for him to fall in company with, as some of the rangers had gone astray.
The Soldan, imbued, as most were, with the superstitions of his time, paused over a horoscope.
If those [taxes] were the only ones we had to pay, we might the more easily discharge them.
Much might be said on both sides.
If hand of mine another's task has lightened.
It felt the guidance that it does not claim.
So perish all whose breast ne'er learned to glow
For others' good, or melt for others' woe.
None shall rule but the humble.
Some inflected.
It will be noticed that some of these are inflected for case and number; such as one other, another.
The word one has a reflexive form; for example,—
One reflexive.
The best way to punish oneself for doing ill seems to me to go and do good.—Kingsley.
The lines sound so prettily to one's self.—Holmes.
Exercise.—Find sentences containing ten numeral pronouns.