Template:Early Modern English personal pronouns (table)

From Textus Receptus

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 (its)[2]	his / hers / his (its)[2]
	plural	they	them	their	theirs

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1. Template:Note labelTemplate:Note labelIn 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.
2. Template:Note labelTemplate:Note labelFrom 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 its became common. "Its" appears only once in the 1611 King James Bible ({{#if:| }}Leviticus 25:5).