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Personal pronouns.

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What are personal pronouns?

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Okay, the personal pronouns are the words that refer back to something or someone that has already been mentioned.

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Examples.

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John took the book and opened it.

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So, to avoid the repetition of the book, we use the pronoun it.

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Peter rang Mary and invited her to dinner.

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The same.

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Instead of saying Peter rang Mary and invited Mary to dinner,

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we just replace the noun Mary by the pronoun here.

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My father is very thin because he goes to the gym two hours a day.

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Instead of repeating my father, we just use he.

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There are two types of personal pronouns, subject pronouns and object pronouns.

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Subject pronouns are I, you, he, she, it, we, you and they

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And the object pronouns are me, you, him, her, it, us, you and them

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Let's learn first of all about subject pronouns

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okay subject pronouns are the ones that take the place of nouns that are the subject of a sentence

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what is the subject the subject is the person or thing that performs the action and the action is

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the verb example maria and cristina go to the cinema okay maria and cristina are the subject

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of the sentence. They perform the action of going to the cinema. And the pronoun that we use

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to substitute María and Cristina, it's they. They go to the cinema. We are going to see the

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different subject pronouns. For the first person singular, we have I. For the second person singular,

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we have you

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for the third person singular

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we have he, she and it

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for the first person plural, we

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for the second person plural, you

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and for the third person plural, they

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examples of subject pronouns

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ok, my sister loves English

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so the subject of the sentence is my sister

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and we have to find a pronoun to substitute my sister.

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She loves English.

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Cristina and I are teachers.

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We are teachers.

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And George and Larry are friends.

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They are friends.

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Notice the difference between we and they.

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We use we when the speaker is part of the subject.

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And we will use they when the person that is speaking is not part of that subject.

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Object pronouns.

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Object pronouns take the place of nouns that are the object of a sentence.

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What is the object of a sentence?

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Object will be the person or thing that receives the action.

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okay so subject personal thing that performs the action and object personal thing that receives

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the action can you help your father okay here the your father is not performing the action

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it's receiving therefore is the object of the sentence and we substitute it by him can you help

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him the object pronouns are for the first person singular me for the second person singular you

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for the third person singular him here it for the first person plural as for the second person

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plural you and for the third person plural them examples i would like to meet richard

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I would like to meet him

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Richard doesn't perform the action

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it's me, it's I

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the one that wants or would like to meet

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another person that is going to receive the action

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this book belongs to Daniel and Beatriz

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this book belongs to them

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this present is for my parents

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this present is for them

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let's practice a little bit

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we are going to look at these three sentences

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Mary is feeling much better

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John and I are going there later

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and my students love PE

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we look, first sentence

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Mary, second sentence

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John and I

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and the third sentence

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my students

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in this case

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the three parts

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that we have just changed color are subjects of the sentence. So we will substitute by subject

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pronouns. Mary is feeling much better will be she is feeling much better. John and I are going there

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later will be we are going there later. My students love PE will be they love PE.

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We continue a little bit with some more examples. Now let's look at these three sentences. I spoke

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to John this morning. Can you give Sarah more cake? Our grandmother lives with my parents,

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brothers and i okay in this case john sarah and my parents brothers and i are the objects of this

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sentences okay so we have to look for object pronouns so i spoke to john this morning i spoke

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to him this morning can you give sarah some more cake can you give her some more cake and

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our grandmother lives with my parents

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brothers and I

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my parents brothers and I

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will be

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us

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our grandmother lives with us

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ok

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and that's all

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I hope you understood

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and you have it clear now

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bye bye