English Personal Pronouns

English Personal Pronouns

The personal pronouns in English take various forms according to number, person, case and natural gender. Modern English has very little inflection of nouns or adjectives, to the point where some authors describe it as an analytic language, but the Modern English system of personal pronouns has preserved some of the inflectional complexity of Old English and Middle English.

Read more about English Personal Pronouns:  Forms of Personal Pronouns, Table of Basic Personal Pronouns, Archaic and Non-standard Forms, Generic you, Use of he, she and it, Singular they, Case Usage

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