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Subject pronoun
I you he she it we they
Object pronoun
me you him her it
us them
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When you mention the person who receives the action, you’re talking about an indirect object. An indirect object goes after the verb and before the direct object: The dog brings its owner the newspaper.
The indirect object may be a thing not a person but it still receives the action, as in: John made the book a new cover.
Placing an object with a transitive verb
However some verbs, called transitive verbs need an object. For example
the verb ’to drop’ is transitive. In the sentence, ‘I dropped the cup’, ‘I’ is the subject, ‘dropped’ is the verb and ‘the cup’ is the object. If you’re not sure whether or not a verb is transitive, use a dictionary to check. Transitive verbs are listed with a T or tr in brackets next to the verb and the definition often includes something or somebody to emphasise that you need a direct object.
Standing in with object pronouns
You use ‘her’ not ‘she’ as the object. So these are the object pronouns that replace nouns and phrases:
Proposing Prepositions
Prepositions are words that come before nouns and pronouns and show how words in a sentence relate to each other in terms of amount, direction, time, place, cause, or manner. Here are a few examples:
✓ Prepositions of manner: by, via
✓ Prepositions of amount: about, over
✓ Prepositions of time: before, after
✓ Prepositions of direction: into, towards ✓ Prepositions of place: next to, in front of ✓ Prepositions of cause: because, due to