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Personal pronouns

The following are the different forms for personal pronouns in English:

person subject object
1st I me
2nd you you
3rd it, he, she it, him, her
1st plural we us
3rd plural they them

Use of the subject pronoun

Subject pronouns reflect the nouns they replace. Since English nouns rarely show gender, the pronouns "he" and "she" are generally used only for people or animals; in the case of objects or impersonal expressions, the pronoun "it" will be used.

Examples:

Use of predicate pronouns:

Predicate pronouns will always have the same form whether they are used as direct, indirect, or prepositional objects. The forms are: "me", "you", "it", "him", "her", "us", "them."

Whatever the form of the sentence (affirmative, negative, interrogative), direct objects — or the pronouns replacing them — will follow the verb:

Prepositional objects will come after their preposition:

Indirect objects will generally come after the proposition "to," except if the pronoun precedes the direct object, in which cas the proposition "to" disappears:

Order of pronouns

When a verb is followed by two or more pronouns, the following sequence is observed:

subject verb object indirect object prep. object
He gave it to me for Christmas

Examples:

Exception: As noted above, one may omit the preposition "to" in front of an indirect object, in which cas the indirect object pronoun precedes the direct object:

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