PERSONAL PRONOUNS SUBJECT OBJECT I me you you he him she her it it we us you you they them 1.

The English personal pronouns can never be implied. 2. YOU is also used for formal register. 3. He/ him are used for male persons (and sometimes animals. 4. She/her are used for female persons (and sometimes animals. 5. It/its are used for animals and things.

POSSESSION ADJECTIVE PRONOUN my mine your yours his his her hers its its our ours your yours their theirs

NB: Saxon Genitive

1. Possessive adjectives and pronouns must never be used with other determiners. 2. In order to use a determiner and a possessive in the same phrase, you must construct the sentence as follows: determiner + noun + of + possessive e.g. We must see some friends of his tonight (NOT some his friends) This man is a descendant of Shakespeare's (NOT a Shakespeare's descendant).

RELATIVE PRONOUNS who whom whose which that what

They link two clauses together and they function as the subject or an object of the second clause (except for whose ). For instance: 1. She is a woman who always knows what to do. 2. This is Mr. Bradford, whom you met last week. 3. I saw Martin, whose wife you fired last year. warning!* 4. I have the book which you are looking for. 5. Have you got a map that shows all the motorways? 6. He gave her what she needed. warning!**

1. Who = subject pronoun vs. Whom= object pronoun 2. Who and whom must be used for persons, whereas which must be used for things. Whom is very formal. 3. *: Whose is a relative pronoun meaning possession (= it. CUI) and it must never be used with the articles ( the whose hair) 4. ** What can never substitute for that or which and it does not mean che but ci che, il che (e.g. Everything that happened was my fault. NOT .everything what happened ) Dott.ssa Angela Di Gennaro - Inglese I