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[00:00:53]Good evening everyone. Welcome to teacher Laurens class and I hope this evening we will be learning something new.

[00:01:07]Hope we learning something new this evening. We are still on the parts of speech. You see there are eight parts of speech namely nouns, verbs, pronouns, adjectives, adverbs.

[00:01:26]Let's do it again. Nouns, verbs, pronouns, adverbs.

[00:01:37]adjectives, preposition, conjunction, interjection, a part of speech. We'll be looking at a part of speech.

[00:01:53]We we'll be looking at but we have done nouns already and we have done verbs.

[00:02:00]Last week we I tried to put a test there with um subject and verb agreement. I don't know if you you had seen it.

[00:02:10]Um so we basically finish with um verbs because the main thing in verb is the concord or subject and verb agreement.

[00:02:20]If the subject is one, the verb must be one. That is where the problem many persons have the problem with the subject and verb agreement. So we are moving on moving right along. We're on pronouns and that's a part of speech.

[00:02:36]Now when we learn grammar why do we learn grammar? We learn grammar so that we can our writing will sound better. it will be grammatically correct and others would want to read it. So the part of speech while our main aim in language in English language is to express ourselves um in a way that as I said people would want to read our writing. We still have to be concerned about the vocabulary, the grammar, the spellings and all the other um conventions of writing. We have to be concerned about that because if the if our essays or stories have grammatical errors then others will not want to read it. But as I said the main focus is to get the writing on paper and that is what we do on a Wednesday. be right. It doesn't matter how it sound, how it look, just right.

[00:03:48]So today we are going to be tonight we're going to be looking at pronouns.

[00:03:54]Pronouns we know that pronouns are part of speech. A part one of the eight parts of speech and I have it on the board here.

[00:04:03]Pronouns. And we're going to be looking at subject and object pronouns. What are these? Then I have here pronouns are words which take the place of a noun.

[00:04:14]And listen to this sentence.

[00:04:17]Marcia went to the market and Marcia put and Marcia bought some oranges.

[00:04:29]Now you notice the repetition of Marcel.

[00:04:32]So when you speak and you have to repeat it's it would sound monotonous right throughout.

[00:04:40]Karen Karen and Karen and Nathan are playing a puzzle game. Karen and Nathan are enjoying the puzzle game. So here my repeating Karen and Nathan I could say they are. So pronouns are small words, simple words that takes the place of a noun. Instead of having repetition, we can have pronouns. And some of the pronouns that will come across these are like he, she, they, us, um I, me, them. Those are simple pronouns that we use every day.

[00:05:31]instead of repeating someone's name. All right? Or referring to people. Now listen to this these sentences and see if you can identify the pronouns in them.

[00:05:47]John is my friend.

[00:05:50]He is very helpful.

[00:05:54]John is my friend. Pulls up. He is very helpful. And if you say he, you are correct.

[00:06:02]He is a pronoun.

[00:06:05]Another one. Sarah loves music. She sings well. What is the pronoun? These are two sentences. Sarah loves loves music. She sings well. Two sentences.

[00:06:21]She if you say she, you are correct.

[00:06:25]The dog is hungry.

[00:06:28]It needs food. If you say it, you are correct.

[00:06:37]Next one. My friends are here. They want to play. What is the pronoun in that sentence? And if you say they, you are correct.

[00:06:51]I am going to school. What is the pronoun?

[00:06:57]Instead of saying Paul or Paula or Lincoln referring to myself, I can say hi. So you see that even though these words are small, they are effective.

[00:07:08]They make sense and they make your writing comes alive.

[00:07:14]Now in pronouns, you have different types of pronoun. You have reflective pronoun, you have personal pronoun, all sorts of pronoun, right? We're going to be looking today at two types of um we're going to be looking at personal pronoun. And as the word say personal, you know it has to do with people. We're going to be looking at two types of pronoun subject and object pronouns.

[00:07:45]Let me write on the board.

[00:07:56]Let me write here.

[00:08:00]We're going to be looking at personal pronoun.

[00:08:16]All right. And this have to do with people. Personal pronoun means we are referring to people.

[00:08:26]And it can also it can be things as well. Let me put and things.

[00:08:37]So it can be things but more often they refer to people.

[00:08:44]Now we have on the personal pronouns you have two types of pronoun. You have subject pronoun and object pronouns.

[00:09:02]object pronouns and object pronouns.

[00:09:16]Now you might be able to identify subject pronoun but subject pronoun can be in the singular, it can be one or it can be more than one.

[00:09:28]So let's just look at singular.

[00:09:30]So I'm going to put So over here we're talking about subject pronoun. So you have singular subject pronoun that means one and you have plural subject pronoun.

[00:09:50]You have singular subject pronoun and plural subject pronoun.

[00:09:56]And let us see if we can find them. I what would be the plural? If it's not I, it is what? It would be we.

[00:10:12]All right. Now you can have you and you is the second person. So it can be you for the sub for the singular and for the for the singular as well as the plural.

[00:10:26]Then you have E and then she and this these two can be they.

[00:10:41]Then you have it and it is the same it.

[00:10:49]So these are basically called the subject pronoun. And you know the subject of a sentence is who the sentence is about. What who or what the subject is about. So the subject is always referring to a person or a thing or or an animal rather that it is about.

[00:11:08]Let's go over to the object pronoun. All right. Let's look a little bit more on subject.

[00:11:14]See if you can identify the subject pronoun in these sentences. See if you can identify the subject verb. Sorry.

[00:11:22]See if you can identify the pronouns in the subject pronoun in these sentences.

[00:11:30]Identifying the subject pronoun in these sentences.

[00:11:36]I am happy. What's the subject pronoun?

[00:11:40]I.

[00:11:42]You are kind. What's the subject pronoun? You.

[00:11:50]He runs fast. What's his subject pronoun?

[00:11:55]He She is reading. What's the subject pronoun?

[00:12:02]She.

[00:12:04]It is raining.

[00:12:06]What's the subject pronoun?

[00:12:09]It. We are friends.

[00:12:13]What's the subject pronoun? We. They are playing. Now we're going to look When do we use subject pronoun as against? When do we use object pronouns?

[00:12:27]When do we use subject pronouns as against when we use object pronouns?

[00:12:34]All right, let me clean this.

[00:12:49]All right.

[00:12:54]All right.

[00:12:56]We use subject pronouns when the pronoun is the door of the action or when it comes before the main action verb. We use subject pronoun when the pronoun is the door of the action.

[00:13:12]We use subject pronouns.

[00:13:25]We use subject pronouns when the pronoun when the pronoun is the door of the action or we can use it. Another clue that you can use to help you when to do use the subject pronoun is you look at the subject pronoun and if there is an action it comes before the action word.

[00:14:11]So we can use the or when when it comes before the main action action verb. All right. Good. Let me explain that now.

[00:14:47]It usually comes before the action verb in a sentence. It usually comes the subject when you're using the subject pronoun. It usually comes before the action verb in a sentence.

[00:15:04]Look at this one.

[00:15:06]She runs every morning.

[00:15:10]She runs every morning.

[00:15:22]What is the subject in the sentence?

[00:15:25]What is the subject verb in the sorry subject pronoun in the sentence? And that is she. And then you have run. I'm circling run. So you have she and then you have run. So The subject pronoun usually comes before the action verb.

[00:15:46]He plays He plays.

[00:15:56]He plays football.

[00:16:05]And then you have E. subject pronoun here and play which is the verb.

[00:16:14]So the subject pronoun usually comes before the main verb in a sentence. Now look at these.

[00:16:24]They are singing. What's the subject pronoun?

[00:16:28]They. And what is the verb?

[00:16:34]The verb the helping verb would be are.

[00:16:37]the helping verb and the singing that's the main verb. So it comes before we I love reading.

[00:16:46]I love reading and that subject pronoun is I and the helping verb is love or the linking verb is I love reading. So that's a linking verb or it can be you can refer to it as a helping verb reading.

[00:17:07]Now after after in some cases the subject pronoun can come subject pronoun can also follow verbs like as is, are, was, were. You say for example That's coming in.

[00:18:01]Just a minute.

[00:18:30]All right, sorry about that. Now, sorry about that.

[00:18:48]Let us go now with the other.

[00:18:53]Now afterwards like you have after these are helping verbs and as I said they can be linking verb as well. Verb verbs such as verbs.

[00:19:10]Verbs such as is is, are, was, were.

[00:19:22]Is, are, was, were.

[00:19:25]These after they they can also they can the the after these helping verbs, you can have the subject verb.

[00:19:36]For example, it is I.

[00:19:43]It is I.

[00:19:46]This you have the is this is she. So after these after these linking verbs you can have the subject pronoun.

[00:20:00]The winner Was he?

[00:20:11]The winner was he. So after these after these helping verb or linking verbs, you can have you can have the subject pronoun. You can have the subject pronoun.

[00:20:25]All right, let me give you another one.

[00:20:29]Now in everyday speech people say may say it is me but formally you don't say it is me you say it is I.

[00:20:43]All right after the linking verb. So let's go it again. We use subject pronouns when it is the doer of the action or after the main verb. After the main verb we use subject we use subject pronoun.

[00:21:11]We can also use subject pronoun when we are using linking verbs or helping verb like is, are, was, were. It is I, this is she, the winner was he. So that's basically it. But the easiest way to know how to use subject um subject verb, sorry, the easiest way to know how to use subject pronoun is look at the action word. Look at the action word when you find it's all it always usually comes before the action verb. Always look at that. That one is key.

[00:21:54]Sometimes if you use other method you might not find it but it always comes before the action the action verb. All right. So that is for subject pronoun.

[00:22:06]So, subject pronouns I, plural we, um, plural we, you can have, you, you, then you can have he and she, instead of saying he and she, you can say they, and then you have it. So, we're going to go down now to object pronouns.

[00:22:30]All right.

[00:22:33]Object pronouns.

[00:22:45]And you might know some of them already.

[00:22:48]Object pronouns. And they say and they have the singular and they have the plural.

[00:23:01]singular and plural.

[00:23:04]So if you have me over here, what would you have over the other side? Me singular, what is plural? That would be us.

[00:23:17]All right. Then you have you.

[00:23:21]And then you have you over here. Same.

[00:23:25]And then now you have he him and you have her. You can have her him.

[00:23:34]Put it him. And then you have her. And this could be over here is them.

[00:23:43]And then you have you can have it.

[00:23:50]You can have it.

[00:23:54]So now these are called object pronouns.

[00:24:01]These little words are called object pronouns. These little words are called object pronouns. And we have to know when to use them, how to use them. So we're going to go down now.

[00:24:17]Now these now these these receive the action in a sentence. Another way to identify we say the other one comes a before they come after the main verb in the sentence. They come after the main verb in the sentence. They receive the action like for example. So object pronoun singular me plural us you the right. So remember those those are called object pronouns.

[00:24:53]Now remember I told you that the hollow ones they are used after they are used after subject pronoun usually comes sorry the subject you the subject pronouns usually comes before the main verb. The subject pronoun usually comes before the main verb.

[00:25:12]These now they will come after the main verb. Mother called I or me.

[00:25:29]It would have to be called. So it comes after the main verb. The other one, the subject pronoun comes before the main verbs or before the main verb. Next one.

[00:25:45]I saw, he or him.

[00:25:52]And the answer would be him because the object pronoun usually comes after usually comes after the main the main verb.

[00:26:04]Next one.

[00:26:07]The teacher praise.

[00:26:14]P R A. Praise the teacher. You little praise.

[00:26:22]She or her.

[00:26:27]Right. The teacher praise or teacher prays or pray. Sorry.

[00:26:36]All right. She prays already said gone.

[00:26:40]All right.

[00:26:42]The teacher prays she or the teacher praise her. Which one? And as I said for the subject pronoun, it comes before the main verb. In the subject pronoun, the verb the the verb normally it comes with subject pronoun comes before the main verb. But with the object they come after. So you have the word praise here and so it would be praise her comes after.

[00:27:18]Next one. We invited they or them and that would be we invited them because object pronouns usually comes after the main verb. Subject pronoun usually comes before the main verb. All right. So, let's go.

[00:27:49]So, use this object pronoun when the pronoun refer to the action or comes after. Now, there's another time when we use the object pronoun, and we're going to look at that.

[00:28:04]And so, I hope I'm making myself clear when to use the subject pronoun and when to use the object pronoun. We use the subject pronoun when the action words comes before and we use the object pronoun when the action word comes after.

[00:28:25]Now there's another time when we use the object pronoun.

[00:28:30]We use we we also we also use object pronouns.

[00:28:50]We usually use object pronouns.

[00:28:54]After come after we usually use after preposition after preposition like examples for two with after after before and all these are the words. So we use object pronoun after preposition example for with after before. Right? So let's go with that one now.

[00:29:46]after the the gift. The gift is for he or for him.

[00:30:06]The gift is for him or the gift is for he. Which one?

[00:30:12]Because there is a preposition here, right? We look identify the preposition in the sentence and look after the preposition.

[00:30:25]We choose the object pronoun which is him in. So we have two sets of sorry we choose an object pronoun which is him.

[00:30:36]So again we have two sets of pronouns.

[00:30:40]We have the subject pronouns and we have the object pronouns. And what we're actually doing here is when do we use the subject pronoun and when do we use the object pronoun?

[00:30:53]The subject pronouns are usually used before the main verb.

[00:31:00]It usually comes before the main verb.

[00:31:04]The object pronoun usually comes after the main verb.

[00:31:10]Also, we can use the object pronoun after prepositions.

[00:31:15]Prepositions are these little words like to, with, um, before, after, and so forth. Beside, so all right. So, let's go another one.

[00:31:31]She sat beside he or him?

[00:31:44]Which one?

[00:31:46]She sat beside him or he?

[00:31:54]And because we see the preposition right here, we identify the preposition. We know that we are going to use the object pronoun immediately after the preposition in the sentence.

[00:32:10]Next one again the teacher.

[00:32:20]All right.

[00:32:23]The teacher spoke to us or to we.

[00:32:36]So we are looking at the subject pronoun and the object pronoun.

[00:32:42]Which one? We are going to look for the preposition which is to and then we're going to choose the object pronoun. So we have to know when to use the object pronoun and when to use the subject pronoun.

[00:32:57]All right. with helping expression.

[00:33:00]Please help me.

[00:33:02]Can you teach them?

[00:33:05]She told us the answer. All right. So, let's go again. Subject pronouns are usually used before verbs. Subject pronouns, the I, the she, the he, the we, they are usually used before the main verb. He kicked the ball. She's dancing. They went home. object pronouns after verbs, action verbs and after preposition.

[00:33:34]All right. So let's go now.

[00:33:40]We say pronouns are essential for speaking and for writing. So you have to be able to understand differentiate between subject pronouns and object pronouns.

[00:33:54]We are going to do now a few together.

[00:33:58]And the sentence we're going to do a little mixed when to use the subject pronoun and when to use the object pronoun. And this one me I let me write it properly.

[00:34:22]Me and I uh me and I am going to the market.

[00:34:46]Is it me going to the market or I?

[00:34:51]If you say I, you are correct because I is the subject. We use the subject pronoun when it is the subject of the sentence.

[00:35:04]Number two, Sarah called I or Sarah called me. Sarah called I or Sarah called me. Which one?

[00:35:17]I and me. I is subject pronoun. Me is object pronoun.

[00:35:23]Sarah called me or Sarah called I. And your answer should be me. Why? Because it comes after the action verb.

[00:35:37]Number three, the you.

[00:35:46]This one, you are my best friend.

[00:35:51]you is my best friend.

[00:35:53]That is a little kind of that is a little kind of verb subject verb. So, we can probably skip that. But you are my best friend.

[00:36:04]Next one.

[00:36:08]Next one.

[00:36:10]He or him is playing football.

[00:36:14]He or him.

[00:36:21]He him is playing football ball.

[00:36:37]He him is playing football. Which one do you see? And if you say e, you are correct because this is the subject.

[00:36:48]Next one.

[00:36:51]Mother gave I or me a gift. Mother gave I or me a gift.

[00:37:03]Mother gave I or me a gift and if you say give me because remember this one is after.

[00:37:23]Next one.

[00:37:26]They are visiting today or them are visiting today. They is the subject one. Them is the object one.

[00:37:37]Which one do you choose? They they them are visiting today.

[00:37:55]And remember we use this one before.

[00:37:59]So this one comes before. So when it comes before we use the subject pronoun.

[00:38:05]When the um the verb comes after we use the object pronoun.

[00:38:12]Next one. We saw they or them at the mall. We saw them or they at the mall.

[00:38:22]We saw saw them. So they saw comes before. So we saw them at the mall.

[00:38:31]Them received the action.

[00:38:34]She is my sister or her is my sister.

[00:38:39]And that would be she is my sister. the subject.

[00:38:47]Please help I or please help me.

[00:38:53]Which one?

[00:38:55]Please help I or please help me.

[00:39:02]Please help me.

[00:39:06]Because the action verb comes first.

[00:39:13]He went to church yesterday or him went to church yesterday.

[00:39:19]He went to church yesterday or him went to church yesterday. And again, it would be he. The he comes before the went, the action verb.

[00:39:31]He performed the action.

[00:39:33]The dog followed her or the dog followed her to school. The dog followed she or the dog followed her to school. Which one? Followed.

[00:39:49]Followed. So the action verb. So the after the subject, the verb, the noun that comes after it would be a object pronoun.

[00:40:02]We are learning grammar or us are learning grammar. We are so you the subject pronoun will come we will come before the verb.

[00:40:20]Next one. The principal, the principal spoke or the principal, whatever you want to say, spoke to they or the principal spoke to them.

[00:40:33]The principle The principal The principal R to they or to them.

[00:41:01]And remember the principle spoke. You look for the verb. Spoke is the verb and you know you use the object pronoun after the verb and you use the subject pronoun before the verb. So it would be them.

[00:41:22]Next one.

[00:41:24]And also you have the preposition too.

[00:41:27]So if we look at look at that one as well.

[00:41:32]Next one.

[00:41:34]I am your teacher or me your teacher.

[00:41:42]And that will be I because it is the subject of the sentence.

[00:41:50]All right. John and Mary invited us to the cricket match.

[00:41:58]John and Mary invited we to the cricket match.

[00:42:04]And they invited their action. So we choose us.

[00:42:11]Next one.

[00:42:14]She or her this time.

[00:42:18]She or her.

[00:42:21]She enjoy reading every evening.

[00:42:26]Her enjoy reading every evening. Her enjoy reading every evening. She enjoys.

[00:42:34]So they enjoys reading. They enjoy reading come. They enjoy come after. So you use a subject pronoun.

[00:42:45]Can you help?

[00:42:47]Can you help I with my homework or can you help me with my homework?

[00:42:55]And then the help comes first then after. After after the action verb you use the object pronoun. So that would be me.

[00:43:08]Next one. We us.

[00:43:12]We us. Let me write that one so that we can see it.

[00:43:17]We us.

[00:43:21]We We us. Right. We us are going on a trip tomorrow.

[00:43:39]All right, we are going on a trip tomorrow or us are going and it will be we going here.

[00:43:48]So the subject pronoun comes before. All right, the last one we're going to look at the coach encourage them or they. The coach encouraged them or they and encourage them. So that would be the object pronoun.

[00:44:08]All right. So let's just summarize what we have done. Use subject pronouns before action verbs.

[00:44:17]When doing the action. So the action the subject is doing the action. He runs, they sing, we study. Use object pronouns after action verbs after prepositions like to, for, with, by.

[00:44:37]When receiving the action.

[00:44:39]Example, she called me. She called me.

[00:44:43]The teacher praised him. Come with us.

[00:44:46]Always remember who is doing the action and who is receiving the action. So mastering pronoun improve grammar improve writing in in improve reading comprehension speaking as well.

[00:45:05]So that is what we have been doing this evening. Subject and subject pronouns and object pronouns.

[00:45:16]We use the subject pronoun before the verb, the action verb. We use the action pro the object pronoun after. It's something that we have to practice what we write and sometimes you know you can't I'm not telling you to rely solely on sounds but sometime just listening to it don't sound right you know and sometime like for example you're doing a sentence you can say the book is for him the book is for she just break it up into the book is for this is for she it doesn't sound right so you know the book is for the preposition is there. Um me or I can say um the teacher called me the teacher called hi you know play it sometimes you can play it and and and and listen or break it up in two and listen. So this is all that we have for today and remember remember to to subscribe and to um to subscribe and to like the channel. This is teacher Lauren's class.

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