Business English: A Practice Book by Rose Buhlig

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: