PRONOUN

How to Understand Pronoun Cases

Understanding cases of nouns and pronouns will help you correct your English speaking and writing. Having the incorrect pronoun case can make your speaking sound uneducated. Most native English speakers get the pronoun case correct most of the time, with a few exceptions--for example, the use of me, I and myself in various sentences. To understand pronoun cases you need to know some basic definitions so that you can apply them correctly to different scenarios and different sentences.

Instructions:

           1. Know what a pronoun is. A pronoun takes the place of a noun. Some common examples of pronouns are I, you, he, she, it, we and they.
           2.Know what a case is. Case is a way to categorize the pronoun based on its function in a sentence. That function usually also determines the word's placement in the sentence. There is the subjective or nominative case, which means the pronoun is the subject of the sentence. There is the objective case, which means the pronoun is the object of the sentence. And there is the possessive case, which means the pronoun will show possession of something else.
          3.Know the difference between a sentence's subject and object. The subject of the sentence is the person or thing that is doing the action. The object or direct object of a preposition is the person or thing that is receiving the action of the verb.
          4.Study which pronouns belong to what case. For example, the singular personal pronouns I, you, he, she and it are subjective. The singular personal pronouns my, mine, your, yours, his, her, hers and its are possessive.