hi it's ashley mia and i are here to teach you about pronoun case let's go
you already know that pronouns are words that take the place of a noun to refer to a person
place or thing you know a lot about pronouns but did you ever notice that we use different pronouns
in different situations for example i can refer to myself with the pronoun i or the pronoun me
what's the difference well i wouldn't say me am going to the store do you want to come with i
that wouldn't make sense instead i know to say i am going to the store
do you want to come with me that's because pronouns have something we call pronoun
case there are three types of pronoun case there's subjective case objective case and possessive case
subjective case pronouns are the ones we can use as the subject of the sentence
for example you might say they will hike on that path or she will hike or i will hike on that path
the pronouns you use as the subject of the sentence are called subjective case pronouns
the subjective case pronouns are i you he she we they it and even the word who is a subjective
case pronoun you would use when you're asking a question in a sentence the subject is always
a noun or pronoun that precedes the verb and an object is a noun or pronoun that follows the verb
objective case pronouns are pronouns that are objects they follow the verb like in the sentence
did you see him or maybe her or i guess it objective case pronouns are me you him her it us
them and whom notice that the pronouns you and it are both subjective and objective case pronouns
that brings us to our final pronoun case possessive case these are pronouns that show
possession like that water bottle is mine or maybe it's hers or his the possessive case pronouns are
mine yours his hers it's ours and theirs notice that there are no apostrophes in
possessive pronouns to make a noun possessive we would add an apostrophe and an s but not
with pronouns we just use the possessive case no apostrophes allowed there's one thing we need
to clarify about possessive case pronouns there are some pronouns called possessive determiners
and these are the ones we use right before nouns to show possession like look at my shoes and
your shoes hey look at our shoes these pronouns my your his her it's our and their are not considered
part of the possessive case because you can't use them without a noun some people call them
possessive adjectives because they sort of modify nouns other people just refer to them
as possessive determiners and keep them in the pronoun family but the point is they are not
considered possessive case pronouns so remember the proper pronoun case when you're using pronouns
if you're using the pronoun as a subject before the verb use the subjective case
if you're using the pronoun after the verb use objective case and remember those possessive case
pronouns when you want to show possession and also of course remember to always be
clever