The Grammar of English Grammars, page 771 by Gould Brown
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bj. whomever.
Sing. Nom. whosoever, Plur. Nom. whosoever, Poss. whosesoever, Poss. whosesoever, Obj. whomsoever; Obj. whomsoever.
WHICHEVER or WHICHSOEVER, _applied to persons, animals, and things_.
Sing. Nom. whichever, Plur. Nom. whichever, Poss. ---------, Poss. --------, Obj. whichever; Obj. whichever.
Sing. Nom. whichsoever, Plur. Nom. whichsoever, Poss. ---------, Poss. --------, Obj. whichsoever; Obj. whichsoever.
WHATEVER or WHATSOEVER, applied ordinarily to things only.
Sing. Nom. whatever, Plur. Nom. whatever, Poss. --------, Poss. --------, Obj. whatever; Obj. whatever.
Sing. Nom. whatsoever, Plur. Nom. whatsoever, Poss. ---------, Poss. --------, Obj. whatsoever; Obj. whatsoever.
OBSERVATIONS.
OBS. 1.--Most of the personal pronouns have two forms of the possessive case, in each number: as, my or _mine, our_ or _ours_; thy or _thine, your_ or _yours_; her or _hers, their_ or theirs. The former is used before a noun expressed, or when nothing but an adjective intervenes; the latter, when the governing noun is understood, or is so placed that a repetition of it is implied in or after the pronoun: as, "My powers are _thine_; be thine alone The glory of my song."--Montgomery. "State what mine and your principles are."--_Legh Richmond, to his Daughters_. Better, perhaps: "State what my principles and yours are;"--"State what your principles and mine are;"--or, "State what are my principles and your own."
"Resign'd he fell; superior to the dart That quench'd its rage in yours and _Britain's_ heart."--_J. Brown_.
"Behold! to yours and my surprise, These trifles to a volume rise."--Lloyd, p. 186.
OBS. 2.--Possibly, when the same persons or things stand in a joint relation of this kind to different individuals or parties, it may be proper to connect tw