Study Resource: English Personal Pronouns
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Subject pronouns | Object pronouns | ||
singular | first person | I | me |
second person | you | you | |
third person | he, she, it, they | him, her, it, them | |
plural | first person | we | us |
second person | you | you | |
third person | they | them |
Grammar terms for personal pronouns:
How many?
singular → one
plural → more than one
Which person or thing?
first person → speaker(s)
second person → addressee(s)
third person → other
Subject or object?
Mary saw Jim.
subject pronouns → before the verb; topic of the sentence; does the action (usually)
object pronouns → not the subject
