Minitext A
This exercise will give you practice recognizing pronouns, which tend to be numerous even in short texts like Minitext A (Psalm 1) from Introduction to Old English. Find each of the twenty-nine pronouns in this text and identify its type.
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[1] Ēadiġ bið se wer þe ne gǣð on ġeþeaht unrihtwīsra, ne on þām weġe ne stent synfulra, ne on heora wōlbærendum setle ne sitt; [2] ac his willa bið on Godes ǣ, and ymb his ǣ bið smēaġende dæġes and nihtes. [3] Him bið swā þām trēowe þe bið āplantod nēah wætera rynum, þæt selð his wæstmas rihtre tīde, and his lēaf and his bladu ne fealwiað ne ne sēariað; eall him cymð gōde þæt þæt dēð. [4] Ac þā unrihtwīsan ne bēoð swelċe, ne him ēac swā ne limpð; ac hīe bēoð dūste ġelīcran, þonne hit wind tōblǣwð. [5] Þȳ ne ārīsað þā unrihtwīsan on dōmes dæġ, ne þā synfullan ne bēoð on ġeþeahte þǣra rihtwīsena; [6] for þām God wāt hwelċne weġ þā rihtwīsan ġeearnedon, ac þā unrihtwīsan cumað wītum.
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Find each of the pronouns in this text, and identify the type of each one.
  • personal
  • demonstrative
  • relative
  • indefinite
  • interrogative
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