LONGMAN ENGLISH GRAMMAR PRACTICE

4 Pronouns

4.1 Personal pronouns

4.1 A Subject and object pronouns [> LEG 4.1-6]

Write:

Study:

И

1 We use pronouns in place of nouns. They may be subject (she) or object (hei).

2 We call I, you, etc. personal pronouns because they refer to 'grammatical persons':

1st person: I, we 2nd person: you 3rd person: he, she, it, one, they

3 In English, we must express the subject of a sentence, so we use a pronoun or a noun:

John (or He) is here. Tim and Pam (or They) have arrived. (Not *is here* *have arrived* etc.)

4 We do not have singular and plural forms of you. We can say You're right to someone we don't

know at all or to someone we know very well, to a child or to an adult.

5 We use it to say who someone is: Who's that?- It's our new neighbour, Mr Groves.

We use he/she/they to give information about someone:

Who's Mr Groves?- He's our new neighbour.

6 We also use it when we don't know the sex of a baby or child: Is it a boy or a girl?

s IM

Supply pronouns and underline the words they replace.

1 Your parcel has arrived IP. was delivered this morning.

2 Jane and I have already eaten had a meal before we left home.

3 Who's that? - 's my mother. Would you like to meet her?

4 Who's Jane Wilson? - 's the woman who's just started working for our company.

5 So you've had a baby! Is a boy or a girl?

6 Whose cat is that? 's always in our garden.

7 When John comes in, please tell I phoned.

8 If you see Catherine, please give my regards.

4.1 В Subject or object pronoun? [> LEG 4.7,6.27.1 ]

Study:
та

Write:

1 We often use object pronouns after be: Who is it? - It's me/him/her/us/them.

2 We do not use I, she, etc. on their own in answer to questions with Who?. In everyday speech,

we use object pronouns: Who told him?- Me/Not me. Or we say: I did/I didn't.

3 We use object pronouns after as and than: He's taller than те/as tall as me.

or we use subject + verb: He's taller than I am/as tall as I am. [> 1.1 OD]

Supply suitable pronouns in the following. Alternatives are possible.

1 Who's that? - It's ..m^J.^^L^./MÁIíh^......!

2 Who wants to know what we're having for dinner tonight? -

3 Who wants to help me in the garden? - Not!

4 You can invite him to your place. -! You must be joking!

5 It was who told you, not my brothei.

6 She's taller than but not as strong as am.

7 He's more intelligent than am, but not as good at sports as