Poetry Competition- Deadline: Friday 20th April!!!!! - MG: LITERATURE&LIFE

I know I must be one of those annoying students always asking obscure questions at in opportune moments. I’ve got another one. In the English casing system what do Thee and thou refer to? I’ve gone through my Webster English Grammar and it doesn’t list it, although in the conventional system, my suspicion is that thou is the second person plural pronoun in the nominative, and thee is the accusative case, which would give it the decline of thous in the genitive.

Normally the plural and the singular are both the same in the second person, but if thees and thous were adopted into the second person plural then we would have almost a complete casing system for pronouns, and its use in older texts would make sense.

Rational

“Thou have committed no greater sin”
And “The sin of persecution belongs to thee”

For example, it would look something like this.

 

2nd Person	Nominative	Accusative	Genitive
Singular	You	You	Yours
Plural	Thou	Thee	Thous

 

Hi Timb: Thee and Thou are interchangeable... does this table help you to make sense of it:
http://mrffriends.tripod.com/language/you.html
MG

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Hi Michael,
I still have not received a mark for LJ. I 've sent it twice actually. Here goes a third time.
http://ghettoman7.livejournal.com/

SEMESTER 1: WEEK 3:
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3/15/07 9.53a.m.


Was sent April 14 at 3.39 and April 1 12.51.

Bye,
Marc.