SINGULAR AND PLURAL
209. Personal pronouns, like nouns, have number form. Nouns simply add s to the singular form to denote the plural, but in personal pronouns we have different words which we use to express one or more than one person or thing. In the first, second, and third person forms, personal pronouns also have different forms for the object form, the possessive and the subject form. The following table gives the singular and plural of the subject form,—that is the form which is used as the subject of the sentence.
| Subject Form | ||
|---|---|---|
| Singular | Plural | |
| First person. | I | We |
| Second person. | You | You |
| Third person. | He, she, it. | They |
| Compound Personal Pronouns | ||
|---|---|---|
| Singular | Plural | |
| First. | Myself | Ourselves |
| Second. | Yourself | Yourselves |
| Third. | Himself, herself, itself. | Themselves |
210. Remember that the first person refers to the person speaking, the second to the person spoken to, and the third person to the person or things spoken of. When we speak of things, we never use the first or second person, unless we are speaking of them in a personified form. So in the third person singular, we have the pronoun it which refers to one thing. In the plural, we have no special pronoun referring to things, but the pronoun they is used to refer both to persons and things.