Note: This chart names English pronouns in their common singular and plural forms: "first-person," "second-person," and "third-person." Each appears in five grammatical cases: "subjective," "objective," "first possessive," "second possessive," and "reflexive." I illustrate each case below.
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She, Her, Her, Hers, Herself It, It, Its, Its, Itself |
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The Cases
Subjective: I think we all easily and typically understand this case.
Objective: Most "objects" give us no trouble, save perhaps in phrases like "between him and me."
First Possessive: My troubles come with your misspelling* the hard first-possessive cases of its and their.**
Second Possessive: Yours, of course, come with your acquiring a demonstrably sounder understanding of grammatical possession.
Reflexive: Reflexively, I never try to let the word "myself" substitute for "I" or "me," though I save myself the trouble of worrying much about it.
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*The gerund "misspelling" takes the first-possessive case your (not to be confused with you're). A gerund is of course any noun ending in "ing."
**It's a wise dog that scratches its own fleas. They're better off over there in their own place.