092 SYNTAX OF PRONOUNS.

207. As it was necessary to anticipate this subject when treating of the Etymology of Pronouns, and of the Syntax of the Nouns and Particles, the Student will have seen that with the exceptions already stated, the Malayalim pronoun is used as in English. It is however to be particularly observed here, that the natives, always both in writing and speaking, use the neuter singular pronoun in reference to neuter nouns of all numbers: but such a practice is merely, the consequence of ignorance; it is as much a violation of the idiom of their own language, as it is in opposition to common sense.