They gave you the form, ___________?
Answers
Answer:
We use personal pronouns in place of noun phrases. We often use them to refer back to people and things that we have already identified (underlined):
Peter complained to the chef about the meal. She wasn’t very helpful so he spoke to the manager. (she = the chef, he = Peter)
A:
Where’s the knife? I can’t find it.
B:
It’s in the drawer. (it = the knife)
Personal pronouns show person and number. He, she, him and her show gender. They have different subject and object forms (except you, it and one which have only one form):
subject
object
number
gender
person
I
me
singular
first
you
you
singular or plural
second
he
him
singular
masculine
third
she
her
singular
feminine
third
it
it
singular
third
we
us
plural
first
they
them
plural
third
one
one
generic
third
Subject and object pronouns
Personal subject pronouns act as the subject of a clause. We use them before a verb to show who is doing the verb. We do not usually leave out the pronoun:
She loves playing basketball.
Not: … loves playing basketball.
They don’t finish the lesson until four o’clock.
It’s getting late.
We use personal object pronouns in all other positions, such as after the verb or after a preposition:
Paula’s coming to visit us in September. (us = object)
Thanks again for everything you did for me. (for me = prepositional phrase)
We also use personal object pronouns as complements of the verb be:
That’s him. That’s the man I was talking about. (him = complement of be)
We can use some object pronouns (me, him, her, us and them) as short answers, particularly in informal speaking:
A:
Who ate all the biscuits?
B:
Me. (or more formally: I did.)
I, me
We use I and me to refer to the speaker or writer. I is the subject form and me is the object form:
I can’t come on Friday. I’m working.
I am writing to apply for the position of …
Helen asked me to get some milk.
It’s me. Can you open the door? I haven’t got my key. (It is I. is not often used. It is very formal.)
Spoken English:
We sometimes hear me used as a subject in informal speaking after another subject + and:
My friends and me went on holiday to a little town on the south coast. (or Me and my friends went on holiday …; My friends and I went … is considered to be more correct.)
We sometimes use us to refer to me in informal speaking: