Object Pronouns For beginners

In this lesson, beginners will learn about English Object Pronouns with clear explanations, examples, and exercises to practice understanding.

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English Object Pronouns

There are eight object pronouns in English:

	Subject Pronouns	Object Pronouns
First-person	I	Me
Second-person	You	You
Third-person (m)	He	Him
Third-person (f)	She	Her
Third-person (n)	It	It
First-person (plural)	We	Us
Second-person (plural)	You	You
Third-person (plural)	They	Them

You: Singular and Plural

The pronoun 'you' is used as both singular and plural second-person pronouns in English. It refers to the person to whom the action of the verb is done.

Example

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 (m)	Him → Jake, David, man, boy
Woman (f)	Her → Mary, Lucy, woman, girl
Non-human (n)	It → cat, book, tree

What Do Object Pronouns Do?

Object pronouns replace nouns that act as the object of a sentence. Let us take a look at some examples:

Example

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.

Quiz:

Which sentence is correct?

She called he yesterday.

She called I yesterday.

She called them yesterday.

Sort the words to make a correct sentence:

school

her

saw

Match the words on the right with the correct object pronoun.

Mary

me and my friends

father

door

her

him

Fill in the blanks with the correct object pronoun.

I saw Jake yesterday. I talked to

about school.

Mary loves books. I gave

a new novel.

Can you help

with my homework?

her

you

him

Complete the table with the correct object pronouns.

Subject Pronoun	Object Pronoun
I
he
we
you

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