Object Pronouns for beginners

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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.

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English Object Pronouns

There are seven object pronouns in English:

Subject Pronouns	Object Pronouns
I	Me
You	You
He	Him
She	Her
It	It
We	Us
You	You
They	Them

object pronouns "them" and "her" in a sentence

You: Singular and Plural

'You' is the singular and plural, second-person pronoun. It refers to the person or people being spoken to.

Hey Sally! Did Robin give you the money? (Singular You)

Mom and Dad, I love you. (Plural You)

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
Man	Him → Jake, David, man, boy
Woman	Her → Mary, Lucy, woman, girl
Non-human	It → cat, book, tree

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 him.

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 us, please.

He bought me a drink.

Pronouns

Repeating nouns while talking makes the conversation boring. This is why learning pronouns can be helpful. Let us learn more about this type of words.

Personal Pronouns

A personal pronoun is a word that substitutes a name to avoid repetition. Personal pronouns show us the grammatical person and gender of the name they refer to.

Subject Pronouns

Pronouns that are used in the position of a subject in sentences are called subject pronouns. In this article, you find all your answers about subject pronouns.

Demonstrative Pronouns

A demonstrative pronoun is a pronoun mostly used to point to something based on its distance from the speaker. In English, these pronouns have four forms.

Reflexive Pronouns

Reflexive Pronouns are used to show that the subject and object of a sentence are exactly the same person or thing or there is a direct connection between them.

Emphatic Pronouns

'Emphatic pronouns' are used to refer to a noun or a pronoun mentioned earlier. So they give more detailed information.

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