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i. THE PERSONAL PRONOUNS. There are four forms of the Personal pronouns. These forms are used under various circumstances, but they are mostly reducible to a single letter with or without its vowel for each person, the variations depending upon (a) the state of that letter, and (b] whether the vowel is placed before or after it. The vowel is elided in some cases, and coalesces with another vowel in others. 1. As the subject of a verb and preceding it. 2. As the subject or object of a verb and following it. This is for some pronouns the same as the first form, for others the first form with its initial in the second state. 3. As the object of a verb, but placed between a particle ending in a vowel and the verb. This form is used also for possessive pronouns of the first and second persons singular when they are preceded by the conjunction ha, and, or by a preposition ending in a vowel, or by en, in. 4. In composition with a preposition, and for forming the persons of an inflected tense of a verb. In the first and second the consonant is followed by a vowel. In the third and fourth the consonant ends the word. i. The First Person Singular. English, / or me. Letter M ( V ). 98