Nominative - Personal Pronouns - Pronouns - Parts Of Speech-ESL/Learn English Grammar

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CASES OF PERSONAL PRONOUNS


I. The Nominative


[Sidenote: _Nominative forms._]


84. The nominative forms of personal pronouns have the same uses as

the nominative of nouns (see Sec. 58). The case of most of these

pronouns can be determined more easily than the case of nouns, for,

besides a nominative _use_, they have a nominative form. The words

_I_, _thou_, _he_, _she_, _we_, _ye_, _they_, are very rarely anything

but nominative in literary English, though _ye_ is occasionally used

as objective.



[Sidenote: _Additional nominatives in spoken English._]


85. In spoken English, however, there are some others that are added

to the list of nominatives: they are, _me_, _him_, _her_, _us_,

_them_, when they occur in the _predicate position_. That is, in such

a sentence as, "I am sure it was _him_," the literary language would

require _he_ after _was_; but colloquial English regularly uses as

predicate nominatives the forms _me_, _him_, _her_, _us_, _them_,

though those named in Sec. 84 are always subjects. Yet careful

speakers avoid this, and follow the usage of literary English.






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