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-The face of that man is familiar to me. I seem to know him.
-Who exactly?
-That tall man of forty-four, perhaps, with coarse features.
-That one who has very fed hair with a bald patch on the crown?
-No
-Is it the man in uniform with a tooth-brush moustache?
-Wrong again! Look to the right at the man of your size in a brown suit with broad shoulders. He has a very uncommon face.
-Do you mean the stout gentleman with a flashy and pale face touched with color only at the thick hanging lobes of his ears? The one who has just broken out into laughter?
-Just that very man! Don't you find there is something about him that makes him look sleepy?
-It is his heavy-lidded eyes and the disorder of his scanty hair.
-Somehow I connect him with Michael. He seems to have recognized us too. He is coming towards us.
-How could we possibly forget him. It is Michael's father-in-law, Mr. Brown.
Grammar: Pronouns.
We use pronouns instead of nouns.
Pronouns fall under the following groups:
· Personal: I, he, she, it, we, you, they.
Personal pronouns have two cases.
· We do not have singular and plural forms of you. We can say “You are right” to someone we do not know at all or we know very well, to a child or to an adult.
· We use it for thing, to refer to animals, a baby of a child. We use he, she, who when we refer to pets, ships, cars, motorbikes, a country, if a reference is “affectionate”.
· Reflexive: myself, himself, herself, itself, ourselves, yourself (yourselves), themselves.
We often use reflexive pronouns with the verbs: amuse, blame, cut, dry, enjoy, hurt, introduce.
We can use reflexive pronouns after prepositions.
· Demonstrative: this (these), that (those), such, the same.
Both this and that can be applied to persons or things.
The pronoun same is always used with the definite article.
· Interrogative: who, whose, what, which.
They are used to form special questions
Who refer to human beings, what is usually refers to things (it may be applied to people when inquiring about their occupation).
Which has a selective meaning. It may refer to persons or things.
Ex. 5. Fill in the blanks with a personal pronouns.
1.I see a teacher. I see....
2.Please, read the letter, read....
3.I know the boy, I know....
4.I am glad to meet both Tom and Ann, I am glad to meet....
5.Give me the book, give... to me.
6.I do not like Ann's brother, I do not like....
Ex. 6. Insert a reflexive pronoun where necessary.
1.He shaves... every day.
2.Go and wash...
3.She washed... quickly and went to prepare breakfast.
4.He likes his wife to dress... well.
5.Behave...!
6.You can not behave....
7.The child fell and hurt... badly.
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