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    Grammar - Possessive Pronouns: Subjective (Nominative) & Objective

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    This document discusses different types of pronouns including subjective, objective, possessive, and reflexive pronouns. It provides examples of how to use each type of pronoun depending on whether it is the subject or object of a sentence. Subjective pronouns are used as the subject, objective pronouns are used as the object, possessive pronouns show ownership, and reflexive pronouns refer back to the subject. The document provides tables listing the different forms of each type of pronoun for singular and plural cases.

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    This document discusses different types of pronouns including subjective, objective, possessive, and reflexive pronouns. It provides examples of how to use each type of pronoun depending on whether it is the subject or object of a sentence. Subjective pronouns are used as the subject, objective pronouns are used as the object, possessive pronouns show ownership, and reflexive pronouns refer back to the subject. The document provides tables listing the different forms of each type of pronoun for singular and plural cases.

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    This document discusses different types of pronouns including subjective, objective, possessive, and reflexive pronouns. It provides examples of how to use each type of pronoun depending on whether it is the subject or object of a sentence. Subjective pronouns are used as the subject, objective pronouns are used as the object, possessive pronouns show ownership, and reflexive pronouns refer back to the subject. The document provides tables listing the different forms of each type of pronoun for singular and plural cases.

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    Grammar - Possessive Pronouns: Subjective (Nominative) &

    Objective
    Pronouns appear either in the subjective or objective case. If a pronoun refers to the subject of
    a sentence, a clause, or if it follows a linking verb, then it is in the subjective case. If a pronoun
    is the object of a verb or preposition, then it is in the objective case.

    Subjective Singular Plural


    (nominative) case/
    pronouns
    st
    1 person I We
    nd
    2 person You You
    rd
    3 person He, She, It They
    Relative (who = people, Who, Whoever, Which, Who, Whoever, Which,
    which = things, that = Whichever Whichever
    concepts)
    Demonstrative (denotes This, That These, Those
    specificity)
    Interrogative Who? Which? What? Who? Which? What?

    When pronouns are in the subjective, or nominative (naming), case they are used to refer to the
    person or thing acting. Subjects of verbs are in the subjective case.
    Example: She addressed the instructor.

    The pronouns in the above table are used to conjugate verbs.


    Example: I am going to class now. You are going to be late.

    Subjective pronouns are also used to replace a noun phrase or proper noun phrase which has
    been used in the previous sentence as a subject.
    Example: Mary went to the class. When class was finished, she intended to go home.

    Objective case/ Singular Plural


    pronouns
    st
    1 person Me Us
    nd
    2 person You You
    rd
    3 person Him, Her It Them
    Relative (who = people, Whom, Whomever Whom, Whomever
    which = things, that =
    concepts)

    Demonstrative This, That These, Those


    (denotes specificity)
    Interrogative To + whom? To + whom?

    When pronouns function as objects of verbs or prepositions, they are in the objective case.
    Example: The instructor called on me.
    Subjective Singular Plural
    (nominative) or
    Objective
    case/possessive
    pronouns which
    replace the article
    st
    1 person My Our
    nd
    2 person Yours Yours
    rd
    3 person His, Her, Its Their
    Interrogative Whose? Whose?

    These pronouns are used to replace an article of a noun phrase and show possession.
    Example: Your binder holds your notes. (“Your binder” is the subject; “your notes” is the
    object.) Follow the same pattern for interrogative pronouns (“Is this yours?”).

    Objective Singular Plural


    case/possessive
    pronouns
    st
    1 person Mine Ours
    nd
    2 person Yours Yours
    rd
    3 person His, Hers, Its Theirs
    Interrogative Whose? Whose?

    Objective pronouns are used to show ownership.


    Example: Here is a book. It is mine. (It is a pronoun in the subjective case; mine is a
    possessive pronoun in the objective case).

    Subjective Singular Plural


    (nominative) or
    Objective case/
    reflexive pronouns
    st
    1 person Myself Ours
    nd
    2 person Yourself Yourselves
    rd
    3 person Himself, Herself, Itself Themselves

    This set represents reflexive pronouns, which are usually used when the subject and object of
    the sentence are the same:
    Example: Randy surprised himself.

    Reflexive pronouns are also used as objects of the sentence when they refer back to the
    subject.
    Example: They did not do the research themselves.

    Reflexive pronouns need not be used when a personal pronoun will do.
    Example: The group included George and me.
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