Preliminary
My name is Nia
Rahmawati, I am an accounting student at Gunadarma University. I got the assignment to write article from my
English lecturer. This time, I will discuss about pronouns. There is five types
of pronouns in English, but in my SAP materi we just discuss three types of
pronouns. There are personal pronouns, possessive pronouns and reflexive
pronouns. But in this article, I will focus on one type of pronouns that is
personal pronouns. Which I will explain below.
Problem
The point is we know
how to use personal pronouns. Here I will explain about using personal pronouns.
Examples (in each pair, the first sentence shows
a subject pronoun, the second an object pronoun):
- He runs
fast. / Did Ram beat him?
- It doesn't
work. / Can the man fix it?
- We went
home. / Anthony drove us.
When we are talking
about a single thing, we almost always use it. However, there are a
few exceptions. We may sometimes refer to an animal as he/him or she/her,
especially if the animal is domesticated or a pet. Ships (and some other
vessels or vehicles) as well as some countries are often treated as female and
referred to as she/her.
Solution
When a personal pronoun takes the place of a noun as the subject of a
sentence, it is both a personal pronoun and a subject
pronoun. What is a subject pronoun? In essence, it’s any pronoun
that is used to replace a common or proper noun as a sentence’s subject. If you
are using a personal pronoun to talk about a person, animal, place, or thing
that also happens to be the subject of a sentence, then it is classified as
both a personal pronoun and a subject pronoun.
The personal pronouns that are used as object
pronouns are different than the personal pronouns that are used as subject
pronouns, but they are just as important. There are seven object pronouns that
also happen to be personal pronouns: me, you, him, her, it, us, and
them.