One day Miss Hare gave her pupils a lesson in pronouns, or words used for names. These little words were at first troublesome to Tiny, but Miss Hare made him use them over and over again, until he understood them perfectly. In fact, the words I, we, she, they, who, and it, used as subjects of sentences, and me, us, him, her, them, and whom, used as the objects of verbs, became almost as familiar to Tiny as were good Miss Hare’s spectacles.
In order to keep her pupils from forgetting what they had learned, Miss Hare taught them the following little song, which they sang over and over again:
PRONOUNS.
As the subject of a verb, we may use I;
Thus, “It was I,” or “I have caught a fly;”
And we now will name a few
Pronouns used as subjects, too:
“It was they,” “It was you,” “It was who?”
We may ask, “Who saw the bee upon the rose?”
Or, “It was dressed in very modest clothes,”