In case the class is made up entirely of girls or entirely of boys, the children find considerable amusement in trying to imitate the manners of whichever opposite sex is missing.
Subject:
Demonstratives of things (questo, cotesto, quello, ciò, ne); here also English has no pronoun of the second person (that near you), nor does it possess the general indefinite ciò (referring to a general idea: that (ciò) is true).
When the meaning of these words, in terms of space location, has been taught, the children execute as follows:
Commands:—
—You children divide into three groups; then go and occupy three different places; change places as follows: you leave that (cotesto) and occupy that over there; the others leave that (quello) and occupy this (questo).
Subject:
Possessives: mine, yours (thine), his, hers, its, ours, yours, theirs.
Commands:—
—Point out various objects, saying: This is my slate; that one is yours, that is hers, and this one is his.
—Point at the different seats, saying: Here are our places, that is mine and this is yours. Those over there are theirs.
—Pass around little baskets, saying: This is my basket. Whose is that? Is that yours? Is this hers? Are these ours? Is this one his?
We dealt with the relatives only incidentally in the analyses (Group C above); we do not treat them here, postponing the study of them in detail to the chapter on sentence-analysis.