Pronoun Agreement and You. Personal Pronoun Chart Remember this? SingularPlural 1 st Person I, me, my, mineWe, us, our, ours 2 nd Person You, your, yours.

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Pronoun Agreement and You

Personal Pronoun Chart Remember this? SingularPlural 1 st Person I, me, my, mineWe, us, our, ours 2 nd Person You, your, yours 3 rd Person He, him, his, she, her, hers, it, itsThey, then, their, theirs

Are the Pronouns Interchangeable? Can you substitute I for me? Can you substitute him for he? Can you substitute we for us?

Examples I / Me am going to the store. Please give that to us / we. I am walking over toward he / him. Are these pronoun choices random?

Survey Says……NO! Pronouns are not interchangeable or random There ARE rules for their usage. Let’s discuss….

Subject Pronouns Serve as the SUBJECT of a sentence or clause I, we, you, he, she, it, they Object Pronouns Serve as the OBJECT of sentences or prepositions Object – words that complete the meaning of a verb or preposition Me, us, you, him, her, it, them

Examples of SUBJECT Pronouns _______ apologize. (first person singular) _______ forgives. (third person singular) _______ hurt the team. (third person plural) _______ must do your homework. (second person plural) _______ are from Italy. (first person plural)

Examples of OBJECT Pronouns He likes _______. (first person singular) She likes _______. (third person singular – feminine) He ordered taffeta rompers for _______. (first person plural) They hustled _______. (first person singular)

More OBJECTS Get that trashy trinket to _______. (third person singular) Give a morsel of hope to ______. (third person plural) They want to go to the aquarium with _______.(first person plural) He wished ______ to tuck him in first. (third person singular)

Compound Elements When compound elements are joined with AND or OR, both pronouns are in the same case (subject or object). My horse and I are on the way. (both are SUBJECTS) He and I cracked crawdads. (Both are SUBJECTS) This summons is from Sir Gallihad and me. (both are OBJECTS)

HOW do we Do This? My horse and I are on the way. My horse is on the way. I am on my way. You CANNOT say…. ME is on my way.

Jimmy and me is fixin’ to go down to the hitchin’ post. No….. Jimmy and I are going to go to the hitching post.

With OBJECT Pronouns Please turn in your homework to him or me. Please turn in your work to him. Please turn in your work to me. Therefore….turn in your work to him or me.

Don’t be a Jerk When talking about someone else and yourself…. ALWAYS put yourself last. Jimmy and I will go… Sally and I are shopping. My friend and I are heading toward… Hand that to him or me.

Examples Lucifer shot a dirty look at ______ (third person singular) and ______. (first person singular) My frothing steed and _________ (first person singular)are on the make. Sally hit the ball to _________ (first person plural) and then to _________. (third person plural) Johnny sent the letter to ________ (second person plural) and ___________ (third person plural)