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- [Voiceover] All right,
so grammarians, I want to

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talk to you about the difference between

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subject and object pronouns, but before

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we do that, let's start off with a little

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primer on what subjects
and objects actually are,

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Just generally for our
grammatical purposes.

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In grammar, the subject is
the part of the sentence

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or clause that does a thing.

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The subject does a thing.

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The object, on the other hand, is the

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thing that is acted on,
has stuff done to it,

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so the object has stuff done to it.

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The subject acts, the
object is acted upon,

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let's give an example.

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In the sentence, Reina wrote an e-mail,

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the subject of the sentence,
the doer of the thing

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is Reina, right, as the subject.

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The thing she is doing
is writing an e-mail,

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so Reina wrote an e-mail.

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E-mail is the object of the verb wrote.

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It is the object of the sentence.

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Now, there are cases when a sentence

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doesn't have an object.

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For example, we could just say

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Reina wrote.

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It doesn't have an object, it's just

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Reina's the subject, and
then there is no object.

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This is what we call intransitive usage,

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but you don't need to write
that down or anything.

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Now, understanding the relationship

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between e-mail and Reina enables you

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to understand how subject
and object pronouns are used.

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When we're subbing out
these nouns for pronouns,

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we can figure out which
ones we have to use,

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because pronouns have different forms

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depending on whether or not
they are subjects or objects.

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Reina is a girl's name, and if
we know that Reina is a girl,

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we can refer to her as either she or her.

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These are two of the feminine pronouns.

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One of these is a subject,
and one of them is an object.

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She is the subject form,
and her is the object form.

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If we wanted to rewrite this sentence,

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speaking of Reina, we would say,

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she wrote an e-mail.

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Not, her wrote an e-mail, you see.

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Because her is the object pronoun,

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and therefore is the thing that,

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the object pronoun has stuff done to it,

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as opposed to the doer of things.

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She is the subject form, it's the doer.

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For e-mail it's easy, this
just becomes it in all cases.

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The subject form, and the
object form are the same.

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Let's do a couple more examples

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just to shore this up
so you see what I mean.

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I give her a present.

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Right now, I is the
subject, her is the object.

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Subject, object, but
what if we switched it?

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What would it look like then?

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Well it wouldn't be her give I a present,

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because since we're switching
the subject and the object,

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we're gonna be switching the
pronouns that we use too,

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so it would be, she gave me a present.

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Now, she is the

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subject form of her,

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and me is the subject, is
the object form, excuse me,

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me is the object form of I.

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Get a little period in there.

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Same thing with they and he.

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They showed

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him a guitar.

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Why not?

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They is the subject,
and him is the object.

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Let's give it the old switcheroo.

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He showed

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them a guitar.

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Now, we do the switcheroo, him becomes he,

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so we go from the object form which is him

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to the subject from which is he,

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and then they, the
subject form becomes them,

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the object form.

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Now when it comes to you and it,

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you're in luck, because
the subject and object

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forms of these are the same, so subject

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equals object,

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with you and it.

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I could say you give it a present

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just as easily as I could
say it gives you a present.

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I didn't realize I changed
this to the past tense.

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She gives me a present.

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There we go, that's better.

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That's the difference between a subject

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and an object pronoun.

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You can learn anything.

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David out.