established in this country.
Explain to which class each noun in the foregoing sentences belongs. Be
particularly careful to distinguish between common and proper nouns.
=Exercise 76--Pronouns=
The different classes of pronouns are distinguished as follows:
The _personal_ pronoun is used in place of the name of a person or
thing. The pronoun of the _first_ person indicates the speaker, the
pronoun of the _second_ person indicates the person spoken to, and the
pronoun of the _third_ person indicates the person spoken of. They are
declined as follows:
_First person_
_Singular_ _Plural_
_Nom._ I we
_Poss._ my, mine our, ours
_Obj._ me us
_Second person_
_Nom._ you (thou) you (ye)
_Poss._ your, yours (thy, thine) your, yours
_Obj._ you (thee) you
In modern usage _you_ is used for both the singular and the plural, but
the verb that goes with _you_ is always plural.
_Third person_
_Singular_ _Plural_
_Masc._ _Fem._ _Neut._
_Nom._ he she it they
_Poss._ his her, hers its their, theirs
_Obj._ him her it them
NOTE.--The forms _mine_, _thine_, _yours_, _hers_,
_ours_, _theirs_, and sometimes _his_ are possessive
case in form, but nominative or objective case in use.
That pencil is _mine_ really means, That pencil is
_my_ pencil. _Mine_ is used as a substitute for a
possessive pronoun and the noun it modifies.
The personal pronouns compounded with _self_ are of two kinds: