| 1. Letter Writing | 2. Personal Pronouns | 3. Subject and Object Pronouns | 4. Reflexive Pronouns |
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1. LETTER WRITTING |
When we write to someone we know, we usually begin by writing We finish the letter with: You can just write your name if you’re not sure. Dear Anne I’m having a good time. David |
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more information: Episode 18 - Letter Writing |
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2. PERSONAL PRONOUNS |
Personal pronouns are words such as I, you, and they. Personal pronouns also refer to people and things we know or have just named. |
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I, me, we and us are used for the first person: We use them to talk about ourselves. |
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| I enjoy learning English. Listen carefully to me. We want to help you. Listen carefully to us. |
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| DAVID Dear Anne, Please don’t look for me. I need to be by myself. I can’t study any more. |
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| The pronoun for the second person is you. | |
| It’s used to talk directly to other people. You should listen carefully. |
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ANNE Ah, of course. It’s addressed to you. I told him I’d only give it to you in person. |
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| He, she, they, him, her and them are third person pronouns we use for talking about other people. |
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| He is clever. She is smart. They work hard. I like him. I believe her. I don’t trust them. |
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| ANNE I’ve come to Adelaide to look for him. How long did he study here? |
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3. SUBJECT & OBJECT PRONOUNS |
| Sentences usually have a subject and an object. | |
| The subject usually comes first. He came to look for him. He is the subject of that sentence. The subject of a sentence is the person or thing that does something, or performs the action. He came to look for….. The object of a sentence is the person or thing that is affected by the action. He came to look for him. |
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Most pronouns have two forms - one we use as the subject of a sentence and the other we use as the object. |
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| He is the subjective form and him is the objective form. He helped him. She is the subjective form. She washed the dishes. And her is its objective form I helped her. |
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| We is the subjective form We bought a car. And us is its objective form It cost us a lot of money. |
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| They is the subjective form. They are noisy. Its objective form is them. I must tell them to be quiet. |
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| I is the subjective form. I take photos. Me is its objective form. That’s a photo of me. |
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4. REFLEXIVE PRONOUNS |
| Reflexive pronouns are the self’ words such as yourself and myself. We use reflexive pronouns when the subject of the sentence is the same as the object of the sentence. |
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| We say: I like myself. and not I like me. X |
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| You is both the subject and object of this sentence: You like yourself. |
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| Here are some more examples. My brother hurt himself. Sarah drove herself home. The cat licks itself. |
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| When we’re talking about more than one person of thing, we use these plural forms. They enjoyed themselves. We enjoyed ourselves. |
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| DAVID Tell mum and dad to forget about me and take care of themselves. |
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