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pronoun is a word that replaces a noun in a sentence. Pronouns are used to avoid repeating the same nouns over
and over again.
Personal Pronouns- take the place of specific nouns that name people, places and things. Personal pronouns are used
instead of a name to avoid repetition and to help ease the flow of sentences.
First person is the person speaking (or writing). 
Second person is the person (or possibly persons) being spoken to or written to.
Third person is the person (or persons) being spoken or written about. 

A. Nominative Case/Subjective Case


Functions:
1. subjects -The one being talk about, the doer of the action.
He is my friend.
You have some ice cream.
2. subjective complements. (A subjective complement is a noun or pronoun which follows a linking
verb (am, is, was, are, were, be, seem, appear, has, have, had) and is the same as the subject.)
It was she on the phone.
The superhero was he.
B. Objective C
C. ase –
Functions:
1. direct objects- a thing or a person who received the action of the verb.
John kicked him.
Mr. Smith fired them after what happened.
2. indirect objects- ask “to whom/what?” or “for whom/what” the direct object is intended. The indirect
object will chronologically exist before the direct object in a sentence.
Mom gave me money.
Tristan sent her flowers and chocolates.
3. objects of prepositions- the pronoun that comes after the preposition is called the object of
the preposition.
Sue sold the house (to them).
For us, the final examination was difficult.

C. Possessive Case – used to show ownership.


Examples: Karen had her hair cut yesterday.
Those books are theirs.
Roger will mail my letter for me.
The cat caught its paw in the fence.

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