the second person plural is used for the second person
singular, You are my friend.
Singular. Plural.
Nom. He, They, Applied to masculines.
Oblique. Him, Them.
Nom. She, They, Applied to feminines.
Oblique. Her, Them.
Nom. It, They, Applied to neuters or things.
Oblique. Its, Them.
For it the practice of ancient writers was to use he, and for its, his.
The possessive pronouns, like other adjectives, are without cases or change
of termination.
The possessive of the first person is my, mine, our, ours; of the second,
thy, thine, your, yours; of the third, from he, his; from she, her, and
hers; and in the plural, their, theirs, for both sexes.
Ours, yours, hers, theirs, are used when the substantive preceding is
separated by a verb, as These are our books. These books are ours. Your
children excel ours in stature, but ours surpass yours in learning.
Ours, yours, hers, theirs, notwithstanding their seeming plural
termination, are applied equally to singular and plural substantives,
as, This book is ours. These books are ours.
Mine and thine were formerly used before a vowel, as mine amiable lady:
which though now disused in prose, might be still properly continued in
poetry: they are used as ours and yours, when they are referred to a
substantive preceding, as thy house is larger than mine, but my garden
is more spacious than thine.
Their and theirs are the possessives likewise of they, when they is the
plural of it, and are therefore applied to things.
Pronouns relative are, who, which, what, whether, whosoever, whatsoever.
Nom. Who.
Gen. Whose.
Other oblique cases. Whom.
Nom. Which.
Gen. Of which, or whose.
Other oblique cases. Which.
Who is now used in relation to persons, and which in relation to
things; but they were anciently confounded. At least it was common to
say, the man which, though I remember no example of the thing who.
Whose is rather the poetical than regular genitive of which.
The fruit
Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste
Brought death into the world. Milton.
Whether is only used in the nominative and accusative cases; and has no
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