(2) Interrogative pronouns, which are used to ask questions about persons or things.

(3) Relative pronouns, which relate or refer to a noun, pronoun, or other word or expression, and at the same time connect two statements They are also called conjunctive.

(4) Adjective pronouns, words, primarily adjectives, which are classed as adjectives when they modify nouns, but as pronouns when they stand for nouns.

(5) Indefinite pronouns, which cannot be used as adjectives, but stand for an indefinite number of persons or things.

Numerous examples of all these will be given under the separate classes hereafter treated.

PERSONAL PRONOUNS.

[Sidenote:  Person in grammar.]

74.  Since pronouns stand for persons as well as names, they must represent the person talking, the person or thing spoken to, and the person or thing talked about.

This gives rise to a new term, “the distinction of person.”

[Sidenote:  Person of nouns.]

75.  This distinction was not needed in discussing nouns, as nouns have the same form, whether representing persons and things spoken to or spoken of.  It is evident that a noun could not represent the person speaking, even if it had a special form.

From analogy to pronouns, which have forms for person, nouns are sometimes spoken of as first or second person by their use; that is, if they are in apposition with a pronoun of the first or second person, they are said to have person by agreement.

But usually nouns represent something spoken of.

[Sidenote:  Three persons of pronouns.]

76.  Pronouns naturally are of three persons:—­

(1) First person, representing the person speaking.

(2) Second person, representing a person or thing spoken to.

(3) Third person, standing for a person or thing spoken of.

FORMS OF PERSONAL PRONOUNS.

77.  Personal pronouns are inflected thus:—­

FIRST PERSON.
Singular.
Nom.                         I
Poss.                    mine, my
Obj.                         me

Plural.
Nom.                        we
Poss.                    our, ours
Obj.                        us

SECOND PERSON.
Singular.
Old Form   Common Form.
Nom.              thou               you
Poss.          thine, thy        your, yours
Obj.              thee               you

Plural.
Nom.              ye                 you
Poss.          your, yours        your, yours
Obj.              you                you

THIRD PERSON.
Singular.
Masc.   Fem.   Neut..
Nom.            he          she       it