{"id":501,"date":"2011-11-15T03:33:52","date_gmt":"2011-11-15T03:33:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eslhelpdesk.com\/blog\/?p=501"},"modified":"2011-11-15T20:45:28","modified_gmt":"2011-11-15T20:45:28","slug":"him-and-me-english-pronouns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eslhelpdesk.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/him-and-me-english-pronouns\/","title":{"rendered":"him and me?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>We&#8217;ve all heard it: We&#8217;ve all heard people say &#8220;<span style=\"color: #993300;\">Him and me<\/span> went&#8230;&#8221;.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>We&#8217;ve heard people say &#8220;<span style=\"color: #993300;\">Her and me<\/span> went&#8230;&#8221; and we&#8217;ve heard people say &#8220;<span style=\"color: #993300;\">Me and him<\/span> went&#8230;&#8221;.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>But are these correct English? Is this something you want to learn and repeat?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">The truth is that it is painful to hear English spoken this way.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re going to break these apart into several lessons.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The pronouns &#8220;him&#8221; and &#8220;her&#8221; are <span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>object pronouns<\/strong><\/span>. They are the pronouns to use when the speaker (or writer) is referring to the object of a verb, or the object of a preposition.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The problem is when people &#8211; commonly &#8211; use these pronouns when they are referring to the <strong><span style=\"color: #003366;\">subject(s)<\/span> of a sentence<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The <strong>subject pronouns<\/strong> are<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"> <strong>I<\/strong><\/span>, <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>you<\/strong>,<\/span> <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>her<\/strong><\/span>, <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>him<\/strong><\/span>, <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>it<\/strong><\/span>, <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>we<\/strong><\/span>, <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>they<\/strong><\/span>. So it would be proper to say &#8220;<strong>He and I<\/strong> went to a baseball game. &#8221; It would be proper to say &#8220;<span style=\"color: #003366;\"><strong>She<\/strong><\/span> and <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>I<\/strong><\/span> went to a baseball game.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It would be proper to say &#8220;Mark invited <span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>him<\/strong><\/span> and <span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>me<\/strong><\/span> to the baseball game&#8221; and it would be proper to say &#8220;Mark invited <span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>her<\/strong><\/span> and <span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>me<\/strong><\/span> to the baseball game.&#8221;\u00a0 (Using the plural object pronoun, it would be proper, in these cases, to say &#8220;Mark invited <span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>us<\/strong><\/span> to the baseball game.&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p><strong>TRY IT #1: So let&#8217;s say English grammar isn&#8217;t your cup of tea and you don&#8217;t really understand object pronouns. So let&#8217;s take the sentence &#8220;Mark invited her and me to the baseball game&#8221; and let&#8217;s play around with it. Let&#8217;s begin, &#8220;Mark sent an email <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">to<\/span>&#8230;&#8230;.&#8221; and fill in the blank.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Your choices are (choose two):<\/p>\n<p>1) him and me<br \/>\n2) he and I<br \/>\n3) her and me<br \/>\n4) she and I<\/p>\n<p>A substitution like we just did above will help you to understand when to use an object pronoun.<\/p>\n<p>The correct choices are<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"> 1)<\/span>\u00a0 him and me, and <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">3<\/span>) her and me.<br \/>\nRationalle:\u00a0 We need an OBJECT PRONOUN to complete the preposition &#8220;to&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>TRY IT #2: Let&#8217;s begin, &#8220;&#8230;&#8230;\u00a0 sent an invitation to Mark.&#8221; and fill in the blank.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Your choices are (choose two):<\/p>\n<p>1) She and I<br \/>\n2) Him and me<br \/>\n3) Her and me<br \/>\n4) He and I<\/p>\n<p>The correct choices are <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">1)<\/span>\u00a0 She and I, and <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">4)<\/span> He and I.<br \/>\nRationalle:\u00a0 We need\u00a0 SUBJECT PRONOUNS\u00a0 to indicate who is doing the action.<\/p>\n<p>Next week you and I will discuss &#8220;<strong>me<\/strong> and her&#8221; or &#8220;<strong>me<\/strong> and him&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve all heard it: We&#8217;ve all heard people say &#8220;Him and me went&#8230;&#8221;. We&#8217;ve heard people say &#8220;Her and me went&#8230;&#8221; and we&#8217;ve heard people say &#8220;Me and him went&#8230;&#8221;. But are these correct English? Is this something you want to learn and repeat? The truth is that it is painful to hear English spoken [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eslhelpdesk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eslhelpdesk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eslhelpdesk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eslhelpdesk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eslhelpdesk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.eslhelpdesk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":508,"href":"https:\/\/www.eslhelpdesk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501\/revisions\/508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eslhelpdesk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eslhelpdesk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eslhelpdesk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}