se_.

_Every one else_ stood still at his post.

That is perfectly true: I did not want _anybody else's_ authority
to write as I did.

_They_ indefinite means people in general; as,--

At lovers' perjuries, _they_ say, Jove laughs.--SHAKESPEARE.

_What_ indefinite is used in the expression "I tell you _what_." It
means _something_, and was indefinite in Old English.

Now, in building of chaises, I tell you _what_,
There is always somewhere a weakest spot.

Exercise.--Find sentences with six indefinite pronouns.

137. Some indefinite pronouns are inflected for case, as shown in
the words _everybody's_, _anybody else's_, etc.

See also "Syntax" (Sec. 426) as to the possessive case of the forms
with _else_.

HOW TO PARSE PRONOUNS.

[Sidenote: _A reminder._]

138. In parsing pronouns the student will need particularly to
guard against the mistake of parsing words according to _form_ instead
of according to function or use.

Exercise.

Parse in full the pronouns in the following sentences:--

1. She could not help laughing at the vile English into which
they were translated.

2. Our readers probably remember what Mrs. Hutchinson tells us of
herself.

3. Whoever deals with M. de Witt must go the plain way that he
pretends to, in his negotiations.

4. Some of them from whom nothing was to be got, were suffered to
depart; but those from whom it was thought that anything could be
extorted were treated with execrable cruelty.

5. All was now ready for action.

6. Scarcely had the mutiny broken up when he was himself again.

7. He came back determined to put everything to the hazard.

8. Nothing is more clear than that a general ought to be the
servant of his government, and of no other.

9. Others did the same thing, but not to quite so enormous an
extent.

10. On reaching the approach to this about sunset of a beautiful
evening in June, I first found myself among the mountains,--a
feature of natural scenery for which, from my earliest days, it
was not extravagant to say that I hungered and thirsted.

11. I speak of that part which chiefly it is that I know.

12. A smaller sum I had given to my friend the attorney (who was
connected with the money lenders as their lawyer), to which,
indeed, he was entitled for his unfurnished lodgings.