An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises

by George Lyman Kittredge; Frank Edgar Farley

They are declined as follows:—

The Pronoun of the First Person: I

SINGULAR		PLURAL
Nominative	I	Nominative	we
Possessive	my or mine	Possessive	our or ours
Objective	me	Objective	us

The Pronoun of the Second Person: thou

SINGULAR		PLURAL
Nominative	thou	Nominative	you or ye
Possessive	thy or thine	Possessive	your or yours
Objective	thee	Objective	you or ye

The Pronoun of the Third Person: he, she, it

Singular				Plural
	MASCULINE	FEMININE	NEUTER	MASCULINE, FEMININE, and NEUTER
Nominative	he	she	it	they
Possessive	his	her or hers	its	their or theirs
Objective	him	her	it	them

Unlike nouns, most of the personal pronouns have distinct forms for the nominative and the objective.

Note. The possessive case of personal pronouns never has the apostrophe. Thus,—its, yours, theirs.

The form it’s is proper only as a contraction of it is.

GENDER AND NUMBER

116. The pronouns of the first and second persons (I and thou) may be either masculine or feminine.

The pronouns of the third person have different forms for masculine, feminine, and neuter in the singular (he, she, it); but in the plural the form they serves for all three genders.