Editing English grammar (section)

===Case===
Although English has largely lost its case system, [[personal pronouns]] still have three morphological cases that are simplified forms of the [[nominative case|nominative]], [[objective case|objective]] and [[genitive case]]s:<ref>The Chambers Dictionary, 11th edition</ref>

* The ''[[nominative case]]'' (''[[subjective pronouns]]'' such as ''I'', ''he'', ''she'', ''we'', ''they'', ''who'', ''whoever''), used for the subject of a [[finite verb]] and sometimes for the [[complement (linguistics)|complement]] of a [[copula (linguistics)|copula]].
* The ''[[oblique case]]'' (''[[object pronoun]]s'' such as ''me'', ''him'', ''her'', ''it'', ''us'', ''them'', ''whom'', ''whomever''), used for the direct or indirect [[object (grammar)|object]] of a verb, for the object of a preposition, for an absolute disjunct, and sometimes for the complement of a copula.
* The ''[[genitive case]]'' (''[[possessive pronouns]]'' such as ''my/mine'', ''his'', ''her(s)'', ''its'', ''our(s)'', ''their(s)'', ''whose''), used for a grammatical possessor. This is not always considered to be a case; see {{slink|English possessive|Status of the possessive as a grammatical case}}.

Most English personal pronouns have five forms: the nominative and oblique case forms, the [[possessive case]], which has both a ''[[determiner (linguistics)|determiner]]'' form (such as ''my'', ''our'') and a distinct ''independent'' form (such as ''mine'', ''ours'') (with two exceptions: the [[grammatical person|third person]] singular masculine and the third person singular neuter ''it'', which use the same form for both determiner and independent [''his car'', ''it is his'']), and a distinct ''[[reflexive pronoun|reflexive]]'' or ''intensive'' form (such as ''myself'', ''ourselves''). The [[Interrogative word|interrogative]] personal pronoun ''who'' exhibits the greatest diversity of forms within the modern English pronoun system, having definite nominative, oblique, and genitive forms (''who'', ''whom'', ''whose'') and equivalently coordinating indefinite forms (''whoever'', ''whomever'', and ''whosever'').

Forms such as ''I'', ''he'', and ''we'' are used for the [[subject (grammar)|subject]] ("'''I''' kicked the ball"), whereas forms such as ''me'', ''him'' and ''us'' are used for the [[object (grammar)|object]] ("John kicked '''me'''").<ref>Finkenstaedt, Thomas; Dieter Wolff (1973). Ordered profusion; studies in dictionaries and the English lexicon. C. Winter.</ref>