“Remember: Y’all is singular. All y’all is plural. All y’all’s is plural possessive.” - Kinky Friedman
Note: Possesives work the same for nouns and pronouns.
Possessives act as determiners before nouns. The meanings conveyed are:
“ My vision of a real humanity is of pure individuals relating to each other, but not tied in any relationship. They will be loving to each other, but not being possessive of each other. They will be sharing with each other all their joys and all their blessings, but never even in their dreams thinking of dominating, thinking of enslaving the other person.” - Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh quotes
Genitive - Of, relating to, or being the grammatical case expressing possession, measurement, or source.
Possessive - indicating possession, ownership, origin, etc.
Two sets of pronouns are the genitive case:
“To accuse others for one’s own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one’s education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one’s education is complete.” - Epictetus
Objective - Pertaining to the semantic role of a noun phrase that denotes something undergoing a change of state or bearing a neutral relation to the verb.
Accusative - The case of nouns serving as the direct object of a verb.
If I have this right what this means is that some pronouns are specifically what the verb of the sentence refers to. He ran. Who did? “He”. This would be the accusative case.
The pronouns me, us, her, him, them, whom, whomever are accusative.
You and it have the same forms in accusatives they do with nomanitive.
The same rules for pronouns also apply to nouns for the accusative case:
Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others. - Unknown
Nominative - The category of nouns serving as the grammatical subject of a verb.
Subjective - Relating to or being the nominative case.
The nominative case pronoun expresses a subject, expresses a repeated subject, expresses the subject when the verb is omitted or comes after the verb. The pronouns I, we, you, it, he, she, they, who or whoever indicate the nominative case.
