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The personal pronouns in English take various forms according to number, person, case and natural gender. Modern English has very little inflection of nouns or adjectives, to the point where some authors describe it as an analytic language, but the Modern English system of personal pronouns has preserved some of the inflectional complexity of Old English and Middle English. ==Forms of personal pronouns== Unlike nouns, which are not inflected for case except for possession (''woman/woman's''), English personal pronouns have a number of forms, which are named according to their typical grammatical role in a sentence: *objective case (''me'', ''us'', etc.), used as the object of a verb, complement of a preposition, and the subject of a verb in some constructions (see below). The same forms are also used as disjunctive pronouns. *subjective (nominative) case (''I'', ''we'', etc.), used as the subject of a verb (see also below). *reflexive form (''myself'', ''ourselves'', etc.). This typically refers back to a noun or pronoun (its antecedent) within the same clause (for example, ''She cut herself''). This form is also sometimes used optionally in a non-reflexive function, as a substitute for a non-reflexive pronoun (for example, ''For someone like myself, . . .'', ''This article was written by Professor Smith and myself''),〔〔 though some style guides recommend avoiding such use.〔 The same reflexive forms also are used as intensive pronouns (for example, ''She made the dress herself''). Possessive pronouns (''mine'', ''ours'', etc.) replace the object it was referred to previously (as in ''I prefer mine'') or as predicate adjectives (as in ''this book is mine''). For details see English possessive. As they are pronouns they cannot precede any noun. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「English personal pronouns」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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