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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 Cases are the forms that pronouns assume to indicate whether they are used as subjects or objects, or to indicate possession.
When a pronoun is joined with a noun, choosing the correct pronoun often seems difficult. As in any other case, an objective case pronoun is needed if the pronoun is used as an object, and a subjective case pronoun is needed if the pronoun is used as a subject.
CORRECT:
Jessica and I are going to deliver our report together.
Nelson told Susan and me that he hoped to study in France next year.
Alicia agreed with Bill and me.
INCORRECT:
Me and Jessica are going to deliver our report together.
Jessica and me are going to deliver our report together.
Nelson told Susan and I that he hoped to study in France next year.
Nelson told Susan and myself that he hoped to study in France next year.
Alicia agreed with Bill and I.
Alicia agreed with Bill and myself.
To choose the correct subjective or objective pronoun when a personal pronoun is joined with a noun, try reading the sentence while omitting the other noun:
Nelson told ___ me that he hoped to study in France next year.
Use this method of reading pronouns without an accompanying noun as a way to test your own sentences for correctness.
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In which sentence are pronoun cases used correctly? |
| Yes. In this sentence, me is in the objective case, as it should be. |
| No. In this sentence, I is not in the objective case. |
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