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**** "whom" refers to "the players" | **** "whom" refers to "the players" | ||
=== possessive personal pronoun === | |||
* personal pronouns have a distinct form to indicate possession | * personal pronouns have a distinct form to indicate possession | ||
* see below under "Apostrophe" for distinctions between possessive pronouns and contracts | * see below under "Apostrophe" for distinctions between possessive pronouns and contracts | ||
** such as ''its'' (possessive pronoun) vs. ''it's'' (contraction of "it is") | ** such as ''its'' (possessive pronoun) vs. ''it's'' (contraction of "it is") | ||
=== pronoun forms chart === | |||
click EXPAND to see a chart of the different pronoun forms | click EXPAND to see a chart of the different pronoun forms | ||
<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"> | <div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"> | ||
{| class="wikitable" | {| class="wikitable" | ||
|+ Pronoun Forms | |+ Pronoun Forms | ||
| '''Subjective form''' ||'''Objective form''' ||'''Possessive | | '''Subjective form''' ||'''Objective form''' ||'''Possessive''' | ||
'''adjective''' | |||
| '''Possessive''' | |||
'''Predicate adjective''' | |||
|'''Reflexive form''' | |||
|- | |- | ||
| I | | I | ||
|| me | || me | ||
|| mine | || mine | ||
|| | || mine | ||
| | |myself | ||
|- | |- | ||
| you (singular) | | you (singular) | ||
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|| yours | || yours | ||
|| yourself | || yourself | ||
|- | |||
|he | |||
|him | |||
|his | |||
|his | |||
|himself | |||
|- | |||
|she | |||
|her | |||
|her | |||
|hers | |||
|herself | |||
|- | |||
|it | |||
|it | |||
|its | |||
|its | |||
|itself | |||
|- | |||
|we | |||
|us | |||
|our | |||
|ours | |||
|ourselves | |||
|- | |||
|you (plural) | |||
|you | |||
|your | |||
|yours | |||
|yourselves | |||
|- | |||
|they | |||
|them | |||
|their | |||
|theirs | |||
|themselves | |||
|} | |} | ||
</div> | </div> |