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Rh Before verbs a kind of double reflexive is sometimes used; thus:—

§ II. THE CASES OF PRONOUNS.

The various forms of the first and second persons mentioned above in Sect. I, may be termed nominatives. The following examples will illustrate this:—


 * , I have just come (i.e. come for the first time.)
 * “have you been?”
 * “did you say something?
 * , “I am going.”

The following is an example of the longer form of a pronoun used without the corresponding short one, e.g.:—


 * “what do you think?”

The first person, moreover, has forms corresponding to the English objective case. They are:—

, “me.”, “you.” , “us.” , “us.” , “ye.” e.g.:—

In the second person the objective case is rendered by for the singular, and  for the plural; never by the longer forms given in Section I; e.g.:—


 * , “the dog will bite you.”
 * , “I will employ you” (plural).

The action of the first person upon the second is indicated by placing the objective of the person before the verb, and the word after it; thus:—


 * , “I will beat you” (plural).