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There were a few deads missing from the briefing.
- How many have you killed?
- One hundred and twenty two sures. Not counting possibles.
He’s been working like a black.
b) substantivized adjectives denoting animals and plants: evergreens, thoroughbreds (about horses).
3. Some substantivized adjectives have only the plural form. These are:
a) substantivized adjectives denoting studies and examinations. They have either the singular or plural
agreement depending on whether they denote one notion or a collection of notions: classics, finals
(final examinations), midsessionals, etc.
Finals were approaching.
b) substantivized adjectives denoting collection of things, substances and foods. Some of these admit
either of both the singular and plural agreement (chemicals, movables, necessaries, valuables, eatables,
greens), others admit only of a singular agreement (bitters).
c) substantivized adjectives which are the names of the parts of the body are used with the definite article
the and admit of the plural agreement: the vitals, the whites (of the eyes).
d) substantivized adjectives denoting colours are used in the plural without any article: greys, reds,
purples, greens.
THE PRONOUN
§ 214. Pronouns are deictic words which point to objects, their properties and relations, their local or
temporal reference, or placement without naming them. They constitute a limited class of words (that is a
closed system) with numerous subclasses. They are generally differentiated into noun-pronouns (substituting
nouns) and adjective-pronouns (substituting adjectives).
Morphological composition and categorical characteristics
§ 215. Pronouns may be of different structure: simple, compound, and composite.
Simple pronouns comprise only one morpheme - the stem:
I, you, he, we, etc.; this, that, some, who, all, one, etc.
Compound pronouns comprise more than one stem:
myself, themselves, somebody, everybody, anything, nothing, etc.
Composite pronouns have the form of a phrase:
each other, one another.
Patterns of morphological change in pronouns vary greatly not only from subclass to subclass, but also
within certain subclasses. Some pronouns have the category of number (I - we, this – these), while others have
not; some have the category of case expressed in a similar way to that of nouns (somebody – somebody’s),
some have a pattern of their own (he - him), and others have no case distinctions at all. Some pronouns have
person and gender distinctions, such as personal pronouns, while others have none.
The pronouns also have specials forms to distinguish between animate and inanimate objects. This category
is to be found again in personal pronouns (he/she - it), possessive pronouns (himself/herself - itself), conjunctive