Subject Object Personal Pronouns - Possessive/ The Possessive Case - Who|Whose - The imperative - Present Simple We use subject personal pronouns before a verb instead of the name of a person or a noun. They are doctors. We always write I with a capital letter. He's Jack and I'm Steve. We use he for a man or boy. Tony = he We use she for a woman or girl Sheila = she We use it for a thing. a table = it We also use it for an animal whose sex we do not know, a tiger = it If the animal is our pet or we know its sex we can use he or she. This is my dog Rex. He's one year old. We use they in the plural for people, animals or things. Tom and Ann = they, three cats = they, ‘two tables = they ‘We use object personal pronouns after a verb or a preposition as objects. Look at me. Possessives Possessive adjectives Possessive adjectives show a) that something belongs to someone and b) the relationship between two or more people. We put them before nouns. This is my house. He is my brother. Possessive pronouns show that something belongs to someone. They do not take a noun after them. Compare: This is my car. I's mine. Note that there is no possessive pronoun for it. The Possessive Case We add ’s when a noun is singular to show possession It’s the woman's hat. (it's her hat. The hat belongs to her.) We add’ when a noun is plural and ends in -8 to show possession. This is the boys’ room. (It's their room. The room belongs to them.) We add 's to the last.noun of a phrase to show possession. This is Tony and Mary'scar. (It's their car. The ‘car belongs to them.) ‘Who is a question word, We use it to ask about people. "Who's George?” “He's my brother.” Whose is a question word. We use it to ask about possession. “Whose is this house?” “It's Sheila's.” The Imperative We form affirmative orders or instructions with the base form of the verb. Come here. We form negative orders or instructions with don't + base form of the verb. Don't look at it We use the imperative to give orders or instructions. ‘Stand up! (order) First add the milk then add the sugar. (instruction)