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

all right so grammarians I want to talk
to you about the difference between
subject and object pronouns but before
we do that let's start off with a little
primer on what subjects and objects
actually are just generally for our
grammatical purposes so in grammar the
subject is the part of the sentence or
clause that does a thing the subject
does a thing the object on the other
hand is the thing that is acted on has
stuff done to it so the object has stuff
done to it so the subject acts the
object is acted upon let's give an
example so in the sentence Raina wrote
an email the subject of the sentence the
doer of the thing is Raina Raina is the
subject the thing she is doing is
writing an email so Raina wrote an email
email is the object of the verb wrote it
is the object of the sentence now there
are cases when a sentence doesn't have
an object well for example we could just
say Raina wrote doesn't have an object
it's just right as the subject and then
there is no object this is what we call
intransitive
usage but you don't need to write that
down or anything now understanding the
relationship between email and Raina
enables you to understand how subject
and object pronouns are used so when
we're subbing out these nouns for
pronouns we can figure out which ones we
have to use because pronouns have
different forms depending on whether or
not they are subjects or objects so
Raina is a girl's name and if we know
that Raina is a girl we can refer to her
as either she or her these are two of
the feminine pronouns one of these is a
subject and one of them is an object she
is the subject form and
is the object form so if we wanted to
rewrite this sentence
speaking of Reina we would say she wrote
an email not her wrote an email you see
because her is the object pronoun and
therefore is the thing that had is the
up the object pronoun has stuff done to
it as opposed to the doer of things she
is the subject form it's the doer for
email it's easy this just becomes it in
all cases the subject form and the
object form are the same let's do a
couple more examples just to shore this
up so you see what I mean
I give her a present right now I is the
subject her is the object subject object
but what if we switched it what would it
look like then well it wouldn't be her
give I a present because since we're
switching the subject and the object
we're going to be switching the pronouns
that we use to so it would be she gave
me a present now she is the subject form
of her and me is the subject is the
object form excuse me me is the object
form of I get a little period in there
same thing with they and he so they
showed him a guitar why not
so they is the subject and him is the
object and let's give it the old
switcheroo he showed them a guitar so
now we do the switcheroo him becomes he
so we go from the object form which is
him to the subject form which is he and
then they the subject form becomes them
the object form now when it comes to you
and it you're in luck because the the
subject and object forms of these are
the same so subject equals object with
you and it so I could say you give it a
present just as easily as I could say it
gives you a present well I didn't
realize I change this to the past tense
she gives me a present there we go
that's better and that's the difference
between a subject and an object pronoun
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