Template:Early Modern English personal pronouns (table)

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# {{note label|thine|thine:1|a}}{{note label|thine|thine:2|b}}In a deliberately archaic style, the possessive forms are used as the genitive before words beginning with a [[vowel]] sound (for example, ''thine eyes)'' similar to how ''an'' is used instead of ''a'' in ''an eye.'' This practice is followed irregularly in the [[King James Bible]], but is more regular in earlier literature, such as the Early Modern English texts of [[Geoffrey Chaucer]]. Otherwise, "my" and "thy" is attributive ''(my/thy goods,)'' and "mine" and "thine" are predicative ''(they are mine/thine).'' Shakespeare pokes fun at this custom when the character Bottom says "mine eyen" in ''A Midsummer Night's Dream''.
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* 1. The possessive forms were used as genitives before words beginning with a [[vowel]] sound and letter h (e.g. thine eyes, mine heire). Otherwise, "my" and "thy" is attributive (my/thy goods) and "mine" and "thine" are predicative (they are mine/thine). Shakespeare pokes fun at this custom with an archaic plural for eyes when the character Bottom says "mine eyen" in A Midsummer Night's Dream.
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# {{note label|its|its:1|a}}{{note label|its|its:2|b}}From the early [[Early Modern English]] period up until the 17th century, ''his'' was the possessive of the third person neuter ''it'' as well as of the 3rd person masculine ''he''. Later, the [[neologism]] ''[[it (pronoun)|its]]'' became common. "Its" appears only once in the 1611 [[King James Bible]] ({{bibleverse||Leviticus|25:5|KJV}}).
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* 2. From the early [[Early Modern English]] period up until the 17th century, his was the possessive of the third person neuter it as well as of the 3rd person masculine he. Genitive "it" appears once in the [[1611 AD|1611]] [[King James Version|King James Bible]] ([[Leviticus 25:5]]) as groweth of it owne accord.
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Personal pronouns in Early Modern English
  Nominative Objective Genitive Possessive
1st Person singular I me my / mine[1] mine
plural we us our ours
2nd Person singular informal thou thee thy / thine[1] thine
plural or formal singular ye you your yours
3rd Person singular he / she / it him / her / it his / her / his (it)[2] his / hers / his[2]
plural they them their theirs

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  • 1. The possessive forms were used as genitives before words beginning with a vowel sound and letter h (e.g. thine eyes, mine heire). Otherwise, "my" and "thy" is attributive (my/thy goods) and "mine" and "thine" are predicative (they are mine/thine). Shakespeare pokes fun at this custom with an archaic plural for eyes when the character Bottom says "mine eyen" in A Midsummer Night's Dream.
  • 2. From the early Early Modern English period up until the 17th century, his was the possessive of the third person neuter it as well as of the 3rd person masculine he. Genitive "it" appears once in the 1611 King James Bible (Leviticus 25:5) as groweth of it owne accord.
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