Personal pronouns | The parts of speech | Grammar | Khan Academy Video Lecture | Complete Course on English Grammar: Upgrade your Speaking & Listening - Personal Skills

hello grammarians I want to talk about
personal pronouns but before I get too
specific with that I just want to write
out some sentences for you Jake and I
made a loaf of bread
we made a loaf of bread you are a
capable person you are capable people my
friends are cool they are cool now all
of these words that I'm about to circle
I we you you and they are personal
pronouns we decide which personal
pronouns are appropriate for a given
sentence depending on whom we're talking
about I'll explain in English we divide
personal pronouns into three basic types
there are pronouns that are about me
there are pronouns that are about you
and there are pronouns that are people
or things that are neither me nor you
and another way of saying this is that
this is the first person the second
person and the third person another way
to divide up these pronouns is to divide
it into the singular and the plural the
one and the more than one so in English
if we're only talking about one person
that includes me well then we'd be
talking about pronouns like I me my and
mine but if I am in a group of two or
more people we don't refer to ourselves
as I we refer to ourselves as we or us
or our or ours and if I were talking
about you or something that belonged to
you whether was singular or plural I
would say you your and yours so when I
said you are a capable person and I said
you are capable people I was trying to
demonstrate that you is the same whether
it's singular or plural whether there's
one person in you or more than one
person in standard American English
there is no difference between just one
person and multiple people when you're
addressing them directly in what we call
this
in person so if we're talking about
people or things that are neither me nor
you when there's only one of those
people or things we would refer to that
person or thing as she/her/hers he him
or his or it and it's now if we're
talking about more than one person or
thing that is neither me nor you then we
would say they them their or theirs now
there is most certainly a way to
distinguish between I and me and my and
mine for the meantime just take a look
at this chart pause the screen if you
have to and maybe practice saying them
out loud and figuring out which one
corresponds to which box if I say it is
that in the first second or third person
am i talking about me you or a person or
a thing that is neither me nor you if I
talk about them am i talking about me or
you or people that are neither you nor
me give it a try check out the exercise
we'll go deeper in the next video you
can learn anything Dave it out