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Rh CHAPTER IV.

THE PRONOUN.

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The personal pronouns agree with the nouns for which they stand in gender, number and person: as, He is a big man. . They are big men. .

A personal pronoun which stands for a noun the gender of which is different from its sex, agrees in gender with the sex of the noun; as, She is a good girl. He is a bad neighbour.

In Irish we have no neuter pronoun corresponding to the English “it;” hence, in translating “it,” we must determine the gender of the Irish noun (masculine or feminine) and then use (he) or  (she) accordingly: as, It is terrible weather. Is to-day Friday? It was the truth. I have the hammer, it is not heavy.