Personal and Possessive pronouns

Personal and  Possessive pronouns

In the English language, there are different types of pronouns.

At first we are going to learn two types of them.

• Personal pronouns and  Possessive pronouns.

Subject Pronouns

 Personal pronouns:

Personal Pronouns
Subject pronouns	Object pronouns
I	Me
You	You
She	Her
He	Him
It	It
We	Us
They	Them
You	You

• What is the Subject?

The subject is the person or thing that performs the action of a verb, or which is joined to a description of a verb.

• What is the object?

The object is the person or thing that is affected by the action of a verb.

For Example:

•  Barbra plays violin.

The action of the verb (play) is performed by Barbra; so Barbra is the (subject).

Violin is the thing that is influenced by the action of the verb (play); so Violin is the object

 One more Example:

• Rod likes Teresa

Rod is the subject that performs the action

Teresa is the object that is affected by the action.

So (I, he, she, it, you, they and we) are the pronouns that take the place of the subject in a sentence. We use these pronouns to void repetition and saying the same noun over and over again.

So, instead of the subject noun (Rod) which is masculine, we put the masculine pronoun (He)

•  He loves Teresa. 

(Me, him, her, it, them, you and us) are the pronouns that we use instead of an object.

Instead of the object noun (Teresa) which is feminine, we put the feminine pronoun (her).

• He loves her. 

Examples:

1. The president plays squash.

He loves it.

2. My mother cooks pizza.

She masters it.

3. The officers and the sheriff arrest criminals.

They arrest them.

4. You opened the window

You closed it.

•  Take a look at this paragraph:

My brother and his friends always play tennis every Monday; they go to the club to play it.

One day they met my father, they met him on his way to work. He looked so angry at my brother because he left my sister alone in the house, my brother doesn't get along with her so much, so we decided to go back home and take care of her and my Poppy Mario.

P.s: the words in red are objects or objects pronouns

the others in yellow are subject pronouns.

• Possessive adjectives VS possessive pronouns.

Possessive adjectives	Possessive pronouns
My	Mine
Your	Yours
His	His
Her	Hers
Our	Ours
Their	Theirs
Your	Yours
its	Its

• We use possessive adjectives to indicate that something/someone is connected with something/someone.

In other words they are used to show that something/s or someone/s belongs to something/s or someone/s

Examples:

1. This is my car.

2. Their house is big.

3. We lost our car keys.

• The possessive pronouns replace the noun, just to avoid repetition.

1. Your girlfriend is beautiful!

Yeah, but yours is much more beautiful.

So, in the second sentence; instead of saying (your girl friend) we use (yours)

2. Do you need a pen?

No, thank you. I have mine.

We use (mine) instead of my pen.

3.His father is strict, but hers is open-minded

4.You have an affectionate dog, but ours is not.

 5. The cat looks healthy, but its tail is hurt.

Note: 

there is no apostrophe in the possessive adjective (its)

(It's) means (it is) or (it has).