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Personal pronouns The following words are examples of personal pronouns: The part of the sentence that names the person, place, or thing the sentence is about. Subjects are usually nouns or pronouns. The word firefighters is the subject of the following sentence: The simple subject is the subject noun alone: firefighters. The complete subject is the subject noun and its modifiers: seven firefighters. A predicate nominative is a word, phrase, or clause that follows a linking verb and identifies or renames the subject. In the following sentence, physicist is a predicate nominative. In the following sentence, the noun bus is the object of the verb took, and the noun Chicago is the object of the preposition to: A personal pronoun refers to a specific individual or individuals.
you, he, she, it, they
change forms according to the way they are used within a sentence. They have separate forms to show that they are subjectsSeven firefighters were injured in the apartment fire.
Professor Stanley is a physicist.
, or objectsAn object is a noun or pronoun that “receives” the action stated by a transitive verb or verbal, or that is linked to another word by a preceding preposition. The types of objects include direct objects, indirect objects, and objects of prepositions.
I took a bus to Chicago.
, and to show possession.
These pronoun forms are called cases.
Here are the subjective cases of pronouns. These are used as subjects and predicate nominatives.
I
we
you
he
she
it
they
who
These are the objective case pronouns. They are used as objects of verbs or prepositions.
me
us
you
him
her
it
them
whom
Finally, here are the possessive case pronouns:
my, mine
our, ours
your, yours
his
her, hers
it, its
their, theirs
whose
Remember: use only subjective case pronouns as subjects of verbs; use only objective case pronouns in object positions.
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In which sentence are pronoun cases used correctly? |
| No. In this sentence, I is not in the objective case. |
| Yes. In this sentence, me is in the objective case, as it should be. |
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