I, me, my, mine, myself.
You, you, your, yours, yourself, and there's more! In today's lesson we are going to look
at all of these pronouns. We are going to look at each column one at a time. And in today's
lesson, I have three mini tests for you. Yes, three. To help you review everything you've learned.
My name's Arnel, let's start with the first column, subject pronouns.
Subject pronouns. These are subject pronouns because
they are your subject. Your subject does the action. Subject sat on a bench.
I sat on a bench. You sat on a bench. In English, you can be singular or plural. So I can say you, or, you.
He sat on a bench. She sat on a bench. It, it sat on a bench.
And for animals, we can use he or she, but if we don't know, it is perfect.
We sat on a bench. They sat on a bench. And, they is not just for people.
The tickets were expensive. They, they were expensive. That's also okay.
Pronouns make life easy. Mark and Becca sat on a bench? They, they sat on a bench.
We can make things simpler. A bench, a bench, a bench. Do I constantly need to repeat myself?
They sat on it, we can also use object pronouns.
Let's look at column two, object pronouns.
So, we know your subject does the action, and your object receives the action.
Mo sketched... object. If you sketch something, you make a simple drawing using a pen or pencil.
Mo sketched me. Mo sketched I? We need an object. Mo sketched you, singular
or plural. And, you is the same, subject pronoun, object pronoun, the same. Mo sketched him. Mo sketched
her. Mo sketched it. Again, subject pronoun, object pronoun, the same. Mo sketched us.
Mo sketched them. Again, them is not just for people, them could be a pair of shoes. Mo sketched them.
Common mistake! My mom and me went shopping together.
My mom and me? No, it should be my mom and I. Subjects right? My mom and i went shopping together.
You can see the editor immediately suggests a change.
Me and her live on the same street. Me and her? Those are object pronouns, we need
subjects. She and I. You can see the editor immediately suggests a change.
And if you have more than one subject, I goes at the end. She and I. I and she? It doesn't sound so
natural. I Gary and Amber? Gary, Amber and I. The problem with this mistake is that many
many many native speakers make this mistake. Me and Gina are having lunch together next week.
Gina and I. So you will hear this mistake a lot, in movies, on podcasts. So, for an English exam,
you want to use I, that's your subject. But in a conversation, day to day,
it's your choice. Are you ready for test number one? Choose the correct
subject pronoun or object pronoun for each box. Pause the video to do this.
Okay, here are the answers. Let me know in the comments below how did you do?
And number seven might be a little bit confusing.
We need, you, because the teacher is talking to all of her students. You...
Before we move on to column number three, let's look at a couple of exceptions.
We know, they is your subject, them is your object. Plural right? They visited me or I visited them.
Is it possible to use they and them for one person? Yes.
If we don't know if a person is a man or a woman, or, we don't care, they and them are fine.
Somebody called you. What do they want?
They, one person. I don't know, I told them to send you an email. I told them, one person.
Exception number two. It is your subject, it is your object. Is it possible to use it for people? No,
but we can use it to informally introduce someone. On the phone, hello? Hey, it's me. It is me.
Who's at the door? Oh, it's the pizza delivery guy. It is the pizza delivery guy.
Or, we often see this when we introduce a new baby. It's a boy, or, congratulations it's a girl.
So normally we would never use it for people, but sometimes it's possible.
Column number three. Possessive adjectives. Possessive adjective plus noun. We need a
noun, just like with a normal adjective. It was a hot day. Adjective, noun. Possessive adjective
plus noun. Everybody has a different signature. Box A has my signature. Box B has your signature.
Box C has his signature. Box D has her signature. I like her signature, it's letters are really
clear. It's, noun. It's letters. It's important you don't confuse it's with
it's, apostrophe. Same pronunciation. Its letters are really clear, possessive pronoun.
It's easy to read, it is easy to read. So when you're speaking it doesn't matter. But when you're
writing remember, there's a big difference between it's no apostrophe and it's with apostrophe.
I know this is confusing because normally when we show possession,
we have apostrophe, s, right? Arnel's signature with the apostrophe, Jim's phone with the apostrophe.
But we don't need an apostrophe with the possessive adjective, it's no apostrophe.
Box E has our signatures. Notice the plural. Box F has their signatures. Notice the plural.
And remember at the start of this lesson I said: Pronouns make life easy. Pronouns make
life easy. Do I need to repeat myself? My signature, your signature.
Box A has mine, Box B has yours. We can use possessive
pronouns. Column four, Possessive pronouns. We know you need a possessive adjective plus
noun. If you put those together, you can form a possessive pronoun.
Teresa liked my logo design. Teresa liked mine. Your idea was the best.
Yours was the best. We can also start a sentence with a possessive pronoun, no problem.
We need his password, we need his. Possessive adjective, possessive pronoun, the same, his.
That bag is her bag, that bag is hers.
Don't touch its thorns, don't touch...
With it's, there is no possessive pronoun. We cannot say don't touch, its.
You might see it's, the possessive pronoun, on a grammar chart.
But, you won't see an example sentence, because you can't...
do that!
It doesn't work. No it's as a possessive pronoun.
Order number 32! Order 32? That's our order. That's
ours. You can't use their team name, you can't use theirs.
Okay, when you use a possessive pronoun it needs to be clear what you're talking about.
You can't walk into your office and say, where is mine?
Uh, where is your what? Oh, my chair. Where is my chair?
So it needs to be clear what you're talking about.
In this mini clip you will see a boss giving his employees their checks, their money.
Here's your check, and here's yours SpongeBob. Okay, first we need to make it clear, here is your check,
and here is yours. First possessive adjective, and then possessive pronoun. It needs to be
clear. Let's look at possessive pronouns and a bit more detail.
Jamie is a friend of mine, Clarissa is a classmate of his.
Noun of possessive pronoun. This is a really common structure. We can also
use it at that front position. A friend of mine is staying with me over the holidays.
So what's the difference between Jamie is a friend of mine, and Jamie is my friend?
Clarissa is a classmate of his or, Clarissa is his classmate, what's the difference?
Many times these two structures can mean the same thing. But using the of structure is usually more
general, and it gives us the feeling there is more than one. For example, I have many friends
but Jamie is a friend of mine. He has many classmates, but Clarissa is a classmate.
You can really um feel this difference in my next example, tell me which sentence is correct.
Pete is my husband, or, Pete is a husband of mine.
The first one is correct, right? Because I have one husband. If I said Pete is a husband of mine,
that immediately gives someone the feeling I have more than one husband. One is enough! Test
number two. Replace each box with a possessive pronoun. Pause the video to do this.
Okay, let me know in the comments how did you do?
Let's move on to column number five, reflexive pronouns.
Last list of pronouns, I have two sentences. Bruce told Carla to relax. Troy and Michelle bought their
kids new bikes. Let's use pronouns we already know. He told her to relax. They bought them new bikes.
In these sentences it's clear the subject and the object are different people.
What happens if the subject and the object are the same? He told him to relax?
He told himself to relax. Just relax. They bought themselves new bikes, you need reflexive pronouns.
I accidentally gave myself a black eye when I was playing tennis.
You should cook for yourself more often, it's healthier.
She bought herself a birthday present.
This toilet, it closes
itself. You made yourselves look bad when you're late for the meeting.
We trapped ourselves in the basement because we forgot the key. If you want more information on
reflexive pronouns, I did make a whole lesson on this topic. I'll leave the link down below for you.
Right, test number three, choose the right answer.
Ok, here are the answers. How did you do? Let me know in the comments how you did on the tests!
Thank you so much for watching, I can't wait to make another video for you! See you next time, bye!