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Do English pronouns confuse you? Do you know whether to say “John and her” or “She and John”? Not knowing can lead to SERIOUS mistakes in English and make you fail an exam or lose a job opportunity. Don’t let that happen! Learn the difference between subject and object pronouns, as well as how to use them correctly and confidently. This lesson is a must for English learners and native speakers alike. After the video, test your knowledge with the quiz: Learn to correct more common English errors with my course: More of my English grammar videos: “I“ or “ME“? Confusing English Grammar: “IS“ or “ARE“? In this lesson: 0:00 I or me? She or her? We or us? 1:03 Subject? Object? Pronoun? 4:24 Examples 5:14 He and I? He and me? 9:36 Test Yourself: Subject & Object Pronouns TRANSCRIPT: Hi. I'm Rebecca from engVid. I'm so glad you clicked on this lesson because today's lesson is one of the most important lessons ever. Why? Because this mistake that I'm going to tell you about is one of the most frequently made mistakes, unfortunately, not only by English learners, but also by English speakers. So, hey, if there are any English speakers watching this, please keep watching because you would like to correct this too. But for the English learners, it's even more important because you're doing exams, you're going for job interviews, and people are judging your English a little bit more critically. Okay? So, what are we going to talk about today? We're talking about subject and object pronouns. Now, I know that doesn't sound very sexy, but it's so important that you get it right because it's a very basic mistake. All right? And I hope that after this lesson, you will get it right. I'm going to do my best to explain it to you so you completely get it. Okay? Here we go. All right. So, first of all, what's a subject and what's an object, and what's a pronoun? Because I said subject, object, pronouns. There are three words there. Okay? They're kind of like grammar words. So, the subject of a sentence in English is the doer of the action. Okay? It's the person that does the action. And the object receives the action. Okay? I'm going to explain it to you exactly, give you an example and everything, no problem. All right? And what's a pronoun? A pronoun is a word that takes the place of a noun. So, for example, I could say “John“, okay? “John likes me.“ Or I could say “He likes me.“ So, “He“ replaced “John“. All right? Now, let's look at this chart because here what I've written for you are basically all the subject pronouns and all the object pronouns. Okay? Now, what's the problem? The problem is that sometimes people are using object pronouns when they should be using subject pronouns, and vice versa. So, sometimes they're using subject pronouns when they should be using object pronouns. All right? So, let's see how this works. So, in this sentence, “I love movies.“ Right? The “I“ is a subject. It's doing the action. The action is love. All right? So this is a subject pronoun. Right? But in this sentence, “Please call me“, the subject is understood as “you“, but the action is being received to “me“. “Please call me.“ So, “me“ is an object pronoun. Okay? I'm going to give you so many examples that you're going to get it, even if you didn't get it yet. Okay? Let's try it with this little rhyme. And you can say it along with me if you want, if it helps you to kind of get that rhythm in your head. All right? Because language is not about rules and all of that only. It starts with that, but finally it becomes about the rhythm, and whether it's going to sound right to your ear. So, let's say these sentences, and we're going to run through them with all of these examples. Okay? Here we go. For example, “I like Jack“, “Jack likes me.“ Okay? “I like Jack“, subject, “I“, “Jack likes me“, object. “You like Jack“, “Jack likes you“. Here, you can see with the word “you“ that it's the same. Okay? So there we don't usually make mistakes because it's the same. Here, “He likes Jack“, “Jack likes him“. Okay? “She likes Jack“, say it with me, “Jack likes her“. “We like Jack“, “Jack likes us“, “They like Jack“, “Jack likes them“. Okay? So what do you notice? That all of these subject pronouns usually come at the beginning of a sentence, and the object pronouns usually come towards the middle or end of a sentence. Okay? You'll see that, and that's how it is. And there are a few other patterns which I'll show you. So let's look at some examples. Okay? So we said the first one already. “I love movies“, subject. “We live here“ […]
