Object Pronouns for beginners
Pronouns that can take the place of an object are called object pronouns. In this article, you will get to know different kinds of object pronouns.
English Object Pronouns
You: Singular and Plural
The pronoun 'you' is used as both a singular and plural, second-person pronoun in English. It refers to the person or people being spoken to.
Hey
The Gender of Object Pronouns
Object pronouns can refer to a man or boy (masculine), a woman or a girl (feminine), or an animal or a thing (neutral).
| Third-person Singular Pronouns | |
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| Man |
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| Woman |
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| Non-human |
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What Do Object Pronouns Do?
When we want to substitute a name that has the role of the object in a sentence, we use an object pronoun. Now, let us take a look at some examples:
You have to ask
Here, 'you' is the subject pronoun (doer of the action) and 'him' is the object pronoun (the action of the verb is done to it).
Help
He bought
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