Do you know the difference between I, me, my, mine and myself? This kind of reminds
me of a song. Me, Myself and I.
Sorry about that, anyway. Well today I'm going to take
you through all the personal pronouns and show you how to use them correctly. This is
perfect for anyone studying an exam like IELTS or FCE or if you just want to improve your
grammar. This is the lesson for you guys, so let's get going.
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let's start with personal pronouns. We have subject and object. So let's go through the
subjects. I, you, he, she, it, we, they. We use these pronouns to talk about the subject
of the sentence. So for example 'I like cats'. Ok, I is the subject I like cats. We also
have object pronouns and we use these to describe the object of a sentence. Object pronouns
are Me, you, him, her, it, us, them. So let's put this into a sentence 'I like cats but
cats don't like me.' Now the cats are the subject and me, I'm the object. The cats don't
like me. 'We sent her some flowers for good luck'. So we is the subject and then her is
the object. So we sent her some flowers to say good luck. 'Where are my shoes?' 'I borrowed
them. I hope you don't mind.' So I is the subject and then borrowed them. Them is the
object, in this case, they are shoes. So I borrowed them. So we use object pronouns as
objects of the sentence and also after prepositions. 'I bought this for us.' So I is the subject
and as you can see the preposition is for and then you have the object pronoun us. There
will be a quiz at the end of this video so watch the whole thing, learn as much as you
can and then do the quiz. I'm going to test your knowledge on personal pronouns. Ok, let's
move on to possessive adjectives or determiners as they are also called. So we use these to
show that something belongs to someone or maybe someone is a family member or a friend.
So they are My, your, his, her, its, our, their. Now the pronunciation there of our
could be our or our. Our pen, our house, whatever it might be. Our or our both are acceptable
so for example 'Where's my pen?' The pen belongs to me so where's my pen? Where is your brother
living these days? So the brother is a part of your family so we are using the determiner
there your brother. Not my brother, your brother. Our apartment is on the tenth floor. So whose
apartment is it? It's our apartment, so yours and mine maybe or mine and my wife. So our
apartment is on the tenth floor, our apartment is on the tenth floor. 'Her dog is so cute'.
So whose dog? Her dog. So her dog is so cute. So as you can see, if something belongs to
someone then we are going to use the possessive adjective or determiner. Ok, let's move on
to possessive pronouns. Now these are used to replace nouns. Mine, yours his, hers, its,
ours, theirs. 'I can see your coat but where is mine.' Now what we are doing there, your
there is the possessive adjective or the determiner but where is mine. Mine is the possessive
pronoun, it's replacing my coat. So instead of saying 'I can see your coat but where is
my coat.' Instead of repeating myself and saying that noun again, I'm just going to
use the possessive pronoun. so 'where is mine?' My coat. 'Oh my phone is dead, can I borrow
yours?' My is the possessive adjective or determiner. My phone. But can I borrow yours?
I could say 'Can I borrow your phone?' I don't want to repeat myself again with a noun so
I'm just going to say 'Can I borrow yours?' the possessive pronoun. So another example
'They've got a lovely house but I prefer ours.' So I could have said 'but I prefer our house'
but i don't want to repeat myself with house again so I'll just say 'they've got a lovely
house but I prefer ours.' Alright and finally we're going to look at reflexive pronouns.
These are super useful, check it out. So we use reflexive pronouns as a direct object
when the object is the same subject as the verb. So let's look at these reflexive pronouns,
we've got myself, yourself, himself, herself, itself, ourselves, yourselves, themselves.
'I hurt myself in the gym' So I am the subject, myself is the direct object and we are the
same thing. I and myself. Me, myself and I. We are the same thing so I did the action
and I also received the action. So we use myself. I hurt myself. No one else did it.
No one else did that action, it was me. I did it. Another example 'She's teaching herself
how to cook.' So she is the subject and the object is herself. No one else is teaching
her, she's doing it to herself. Now there are a couple of patterns you can follow here.
For example the word by. When we use the word by we can use a reflexive pronoun afterwards
to emphasise that someone is doing something on their own. For example 'I lived by myself
in Argentina' So I just want to express there that I did this thing alone. I lived in an
apartment with no one else just me so 'I lived by myself in Argentina.' And it was wonderful,
peace and quiet, perfect. If you are talking about a child you might say 'He can get dressed
by himself now.' If we really want to show emphasis we can put that reflexive pronoun
at the end of the sentence. So let's say you are building some IKEA furniture and you said
'We built it ourselves' You are putting the reflexive pronoun at the end there ourselves
just to show that you did it alone, you didn't need help. 'They paid for the wedding themselves.'
So again you want to show emphasis. They didn't get any help, they paid for it, they used
all their money to pay for the wedding. So 'they paid for the wedding themselves'. Alright
guys, it's time for your quiz. Are you ready? If you are not ready go back, review any of
the language that you need to and then come back to this quiz because this quiz is tough.
This is a hard one guys. Are you ready, good luck.
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Remember me, myself and I. Alright, until next time this is Tom, the Chief Dreamer,
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