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+Direction+.--_Construct sentences in which the number of each of the
following nouns shall be indicated by the form of the verb, by the
adjective, and by the pronoun used in connection with it_:--
(With the singular nouns use the verbs _is, was_, and _has been_; the
adjectives _an, one, this_, and _that_; the pronouns _he, his, him, she,
her, it_, and _its_.)
(With the plural nouns use the verbs _are, were_, and _have been_; the
adjectives _these, those_, and _two_; the pronouns _they, their_, and
_them_.)
Bellows, deer, fish, gross, means, series, species, heathen, trout, iron,
irons, news, eaves, riches, oats, vermin, molasses, Misses, brethren, dice,
head (of cattle), pennies, child, parent, family, crowd, meeting.
+Direction+.--_Compose sentences in which the first three of the following
adjective pronouns shall be used as singular subjects, the fourth as a
plural subject, and the remainder both as singular and as plural
subjects_:--
Each, either, neither, both, former, none, all, any.
* * * * *
LESSON 117.
NOUNS AND PRONOUNS--GENDER.
+Introductory Hints+.--_The lion was caged. The lioness was caged_. In the
first sentence something is said about a male lion, and in the second
something is said about a female lion.


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