Personal Pronouns and Possessives Basic English Grammar

want to speak real english from your first lesson sign up for your free lifetime account at englishclass101.com hi everybody my name is alicia in this lesson i'm going to talk about personal pronouns and possessive pronouns and we're going to do short quiz on how to use them let's get started okay want to begin by talking about personal pronouns over here have the subject and object personal pronoun so there are two types in this side so first subject pronoun we should use the subject pronoun when the pronoun acts as the subject of the clause so remember the subject of clause is like the person or the thing that's doing some action or there's something happening and the subject is the thing that's doing that so it's like they're the actor kind of then the object pronoun we should use the object pronoun when it's the object of verb so remember the object of verb is the person or the thing that's like receiving some action so that means there's someone or something doing an action the subject and there's something receiving the action that's the object so we have subject pronouns and object pronouns let's look at this list then so when the subject of the sentence the subject is we use the personal pronoun but when it's acting as the object receiving something we use me we'll see this in an example sentence in just moment the subject pronoun for group of people is we the object pronoun is us for man the subject pronoun he singular man the object pronoun him for woman the subject pronoun is she the object pronoun is her for group of people away from us not connected to us the subject pronoun is they they when there's the object it's them the last two on this list are you and it have them in the subject pronoun column here but you and it are also the object pronouns so that means there's no change here so subject or object you or it they're the same there's no change so now let's try to use these in quiz so made few sample sentences that use subjects and objects so let's use the correct pronouns to finish these sentences the first one or me gave he or him pen okay so here have this verb gave let's begin here that means the subject of the sentence is here have these two pronouns to choose from or me know that this is in the subject position because there's something happening there's verb here and there's something like something receiving the action later in the sentence so if look here find my subject pronoun know that is the correct answer here so gave here have he or him to choose from know that here because it's following the verb know that this is something receiving an action that means it's the object of this verb so when my choices are he and him can look over here and find the object pronoun the answer then is him so gave him pen is the correct sentence let's look at another example she or her told or me the news so again we have this subject at the beginning of the sentence our verb told and some object or me so to decide which is correct here she or her let's look at the chart subject she so we know that she is the correct answer here she told or me so again this is the object of the verb told the thing that's receiving the action so we should look over here and find the object in the object column is me she told me the news is the correct sentence okay on to the next one they or them took we or us to the park okay so here subject verb is took object is over here so they or them subject let's look in the column we see they is the subject pronoun here so they took we or us so here is my object if look over here find us is in the object column over here so they took us to the park is the correct sentence okay let's look at the last one here you helped they or them with homework so this is question here we don't need to make decision because the subject is you so we know that you does not change if it's the subject it's you if it's the object it's you so there's no choice to make here you so you helped the object however does require we make choice you helped they or you helped them so here we see the object is them in this case so the final sentence is you helped them with homework so this is simple way to show how to decide which pronoun to use is it the subject or the object of your clause okay so with this in mind let's continue to different set of pronouns that might be commonly related to these pronouns are commonly used together with these pronouns these are dependent and independent possessive pronouns so what does this mean first dependent possessive pronoun needs to be used with noun together with noun you'll often see it just before the noun as we'll see in some example sentences an independent possessive pronoun does not need noun so an independent possessive pronoun takes the place of noun and adds possession so it means the noun plus like ownership some kind of possessive meaning so let's take look at what this means so talked about over here these subject and object pronouns depending on if it's myself group of people we're part of man or woman or people outside us we can apply that to possessive pronouns now here too so if want to say something belongs to me can use my for dependent possessive pronoun or mine for an independent possessive pronoun if want to talk about something belonging to group of people that i'm connected to the dependent is our the independent is ours if want to talk about something belonging to man can use his you'll notice there's no independent one here we use the same pronoun for dependent and independent so there's no change in this case if want to talk about something belonging to woman can use her for dependent and hers for the independent pronoun for something belonging to group of people i'm not connected to can say it's there for dependent pronoun and theirs for the independent pronoun next something belonging to you if want to use the dependent version say it's your something to talk with an independent pronoun would use yours finally it's it's something belonging to an object would be its so there's no change between dependent and independent pronouns so let's practice now using these so what's the difference between using dependent or an independent pronoun actually in terms of meaning there generally isn't such big difference it's up to you to decide if you prefer to use dependent or an independent one let's take look this is my or mine pen this is my or mine pen so how do we decide here we know that independent pronouns take the place of noun like we saw we talked about here they take the place of noun and they add possession so we see noun here pen pen is my noun so know that an independent pronoun should not be used here because see the noun can't use the noun together with the independent pronoun like this just before the noun so know that it has to be the dependent one so this is my pen not this is my pen could say this pen is mine that's okay because it's like saying this pen is my pen kind of so it sounds little bit redundant redundant means like repetitive or repeating but when we're using it before the noun we should use the dependent pronoun okay let's take look at the next one is that bag her or hers here big hint is that the pronoun comes after the noun here we see bag is the noun see her my dependent pronoun which comes before the noun and see hers the the independent pronoun so know that it should be this one because it's not placed before the noun and it's like taking the place of the noun could say like is that bag her bag for example but is that bag hers it implies possession and that we're still talking about the bag there okay let's move along to the next one similar pattern which one of these is your or yours so this is common sentence actually common question which one of these these so these stands in for group of objects so for example drinks or it could be shirts or pens for example books which one of these these objects here is yours so again there's nothing before my noun here don't have something that's coming before my noun instead it's following so which one of these is yours we need to use the independent one here because it's not coming before the noun so which one of these is yours don't forget that sound as well okay one more example completely forgot our or ours keys so here my noun keys keys is the noun and our big hint the pronoun comes before the noun so know it should be the dependent pronoun which is our in this case completely forgot our keys here okay so this is quick introduction to possessive pronouns and to personal pronouns with subject and object so hope that this is helpful for you in figuring out how to choose which pronoun to use know there are lot of them but think some good things that you can do to practice this are reading actually is the big one reading and also just try to make your own sentences think lot of these very simple everyday sentences can help with this if you have any questions or comments 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