Pronouns

Subjects and Objects

by Dana Dupont

​Subjects

​A subject is the person, place, or thing that performs the action.

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​Dana will teach the students about pronouns.

She will teach the students about pronouns.

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​In both sentences, Dana/She will be doing an action. Dana/She will be teaching.

​Objects

​An object is the person, place, or thing that receives the action.

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​Ray will go with Jordan a Los Angeles Lakers game.

​He will go with him to a Los Angeles Lakers game.

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​Ray/He is preforming the action of going. and Jordan/him is receiving the action because he is being taken.

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​Pronouns take the place of nouns

There are subject and object pronouns, too.

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​Ms. DuPont is going to teach with Mr. Jenkins.

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​I am going to teach with him.

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Multiple Choice

What is the definition of a pronoun?

• Pronouns take the place of verbs.

• Pronouns replace nouns.

• Pronouns take the place of site words.

Multiple Choice

Choose the correct pronouns for the following sentence.

My sister and ____ are going to visit Grandmother.

• me

• her

• I

• them

Multiple Choice

Choose the correct pronouns for the following sentence.

My father sent Debbie and ____ a card in the mail.

• I

• he

• she

• me

Multiple Choice

Choose the correct pronouns for the following sentence.

The teacher wrote detentions for ____ and ____.

• he and I

• she and me

• him and me

• they and I

Multiple Choice

____ are going to have pizza with the boys and her.

• I

• We

• She

• He

Multiple Choice

Choose the correct pronouns for the following sentence.

____ and ____ are going out to dinner.

• Me and my kids

• My kids and I

• My kids and her

• Him and my kids

​Pronouns take the place of nouns.

​Remember subjects do things and objects get the actions done to them.

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​Most of the time.....

​Subjects are in front: I, you, he, she, it, we, they

​Objects are in the back: me, you, him, her, it, us, them