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The modest requirements of Fuegian intercourse have called more than twenty such separate pronouns into being.
The sentences are less closely connected and also more involved; the antecedents of demonstrative and relative pronouns are in some cases remote and perplexing. The greater frequency of participles and of absolute constructions gives the effect of heaviness.
"What are you doing?" expresses simple curiosity; "What ever are you doing?" expresses surprise; "What the devil are you doing?" expresses anger we need not run farther up the scale. Nor is this use of "ever" an innovation, licentious or otherwise. "Ever" has for centuries been employed as an intensive particle after the interrogative pronouns and adverbs how, who, what, where, why.
Phyllis's tone was apologetic, but her eyes danced. Chuck looked appealingly at Janet. "You know what I mean," he said. "Of course, it's perfectly plain," Janet replied consolingly. "You thought she was me while all the time she was she and me was me," the hodge-podge of pronouns and their ungrammatical use was too much for poor Chuck. He buried his head in his hands, the picture of despair.
For the consideration and investigation of Browning Societies, I give a few lines from this New England conception of a Grammarian's Funeral. "Eight parts of Speech This Day wear Mourning Gowns, Declin'd Verbs, Pronouns, Participles, and Nouns.
An' th' ain't nothin' goin' astray on the place? Well, that's good. An', doc', here, he says thet his bill for this visit is a unwarranted extravagance 'cause they ain't a thing I need but to start on the downward way thet leads to ruin. He's got me all threatened with the tremens now, so thet I hardly know how to match my pronouns to suit their genders an' persons.
'All newcomers call upon us, she said. 'There in the middle of the Mall we escape none of them. He isn't a calling person. 'Why do you say "he"? You are very confident with your pronouns. There's a delicacy of feeling 'Which exactly does not suggest a women. We are undermined by delicacy of feeling; we're not strong enough to express it with brushes.
"'Send HER victorious'? Well, there was a fellow just behind me, with a tremendous voice, singing lustily, and taking special pains to get the pronouns correct throughout. And when he reached the fourth line of the second verse he sang with loyal fervour." "'Confound HIS politics, Frustrate HIS knavish tricks!" "That would amuse the King," said Lady Ingleby. "Are you sure it is a fact, Ronnie?"
You keep one bobbing through tenses and pronouns as if the thinker were a jack-in-the-box." "All the same I would love to go over to that big white house in the cherry trees, and see a dress rehearsal. They play Shakespeare." "You must not think of such a thing," declared Dorothy.
Are you sure it isn't B. & O. or the C. R. R. of N. J.? I've heard of those two railroads in New Jersey, but I never heard of the R. S. V. P." For the first time in her life since she's been able to grab a sentence between her teeth and shake the pronouns out of it Elsie was phazed. She kept looking at the invitation and saying to herself, "R. S. V. P.! Vot is it?
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