English Grammar in Familiar Lectures / Accompanied by a compendium, embracing a new systematic order of parsing, a new system of punctuation, exercises in false syntax, and a system of philosophical grammar, in notes, to which are added an appendix and a key to the exercises : designed for the use of schools and private learners

by Samuel Kirkham

CASE. Pronouns have three cases, the nominative, the possessive, and the objective.

In the next place I will present to you the declension of the personal pronouns, which declension you must commit to memory before you proceed any farther.

The advantages resulting from the committing of the following declension, are so great and diversified, that you cannot be too particular in your attention to it. You recollect, that it is sometimes very difficult to distinguish the nominative case of a noun from the objective, because these cases of nouns are not marked by a difference in termination; but this difficulty is removed in regard to the personal pronouns, for their cases are always known by their termination. By studying the declension you will learn, not only the cases of the pronouns, but, also, their genders, persons, and numbers.

DECLENSION OF THE PERSONAL PRONOUNS.

FIRST PERSON.

	Sing.	Plur.
Nom.	I,	we,
Poss.	my or mine,	our or ours,
Obj.	me.	us.

SECOND PERSON.

	Sing.	Plur.
Nom.	thou,	ye or you,
Poss.	thy or thine,	your or yours,
Obj.	thee.	you.

THIRD PERSON.

	Mas. Sing.	Plur.
Nom.	he,	they,
Poss.	his,	their or theirs,
Obj.	him.	them.