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More "Personal pronoun" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... objectionable case of I. The personal pronoun in English has three cases, the dominative, the objectionable and the oppressive. Each is ...
— The Devil's Dictionary • Ambrose Bierce
... me! For the store! Yes, Jack!" There was an emphasis on the subjective personal pronoun—for him; for ...
— Over the Pass • Frederick Palmer
... pronominal prefix to denote the gender, i.e. the third personal pronoun, u (masculine), ka (feminine), i (diminutive). The great majority of inanimate nouns are feminine, and all abstract nouns. The sun (day), ka sngi, is feminine, the moon (month), u b'nai, is masculine. Sometimes the word varies in meaning according to the gender, ...
— The Khasis • P. R. T. Gurdon
... for the constant recurrence of the personal pronoun in these pages, let it be said that the recital of personal incidents, without ...
— Thirteen Months in the Rebel Army • William G. Stevenson
... owe you anything, Blount?" asked the magnate pointedly, and with a definite emphasis upon the personal pronoun. "If we do, we are willing to pay it in spot cash, ...
— The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush • Francis Lynde
... the Scandinavian languages insists on creating a difficulty out of the fact that the three northern nations—like the Germans and the French—still use the second person singular of the personal pronoun to indicate a closer degree of familiarity. But to translate the Swedish "du" with the English "thou" is as erroneous as it is awkward. Tytler laid down his "Principles of Translation" in 1791—and a majority of translators are still unaware of their ...
— Plays by August Strindberg, Second series • August Strindberg
... pronouns, according to the "paradigm," as it is called, to which the verb belongs. Of these paradigms there are two, named in the modern Iroquois grammars paradigms K and A, from the first or characteristic letter of the first personal pronoun. The particular conjugation and paradigm to which any verb belongs can only be learned by practice, or ...
— The Iroquois Book of Rites • Horatio Hale
... a color, and leave a very small part. Behead, and leave a verb signifying "to strike." Behead again, and leave a pronoun. Curtail, and leave a simple, personal pronoun. ...
— St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, Nov 1877-Nov 1878 - No 1, Nov 1877 • Various
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