CORRECT USE OF PRONOUNS

Because pronouns have different forms for each of the three cases in the English inflectional system, they offer more difficulty than perhaps any other part of speech.

People are often puzzled about the use of who and whom: they are uncertain whether everyone is singular or plural. It is to meet these questions that the following rules are given

Cause of pronouns

POSSESSIVE CASE	Used for the subject or predicate nominative.
POSSESSIVE CASE	Use to indicate ownership.
OBJECTIVE CASE	Used for the objects of verbs and prepositions.

Declension of the pronoun

Personal

First-person, Masculine and feminine

	Singular	Plural
NOMINATIVE	I	We
POSSESSIVE	My, mine	Our, ours
OBJECTIVE	Me	Us

Second person, Masculine and Feminine

	Singular	Plural
NOMINATIVE	You	you
POSSESSIVE	Your, yours	Your, yours
OBJECTIVE	you	you

Third person, Masc., Fem., Neuter

	Singular	Plural
NOMINATIVE	He, She, It	They
POSSESSIVE	His, Her, Its, Hers	Their, Theirs
OBJECTIVE	Him, Her, It	them

These forms are pronominal adjectives.

	Singular	Plural
NOMINATIVE	Who	Who
POSSESSIVE	Whose	Whose
OBJECTIVE	whom	whom