## Lesson 2: Subject and Object Pronouns

Congratulations..You finished your first lesson and now know everything about the Present Simple. You are one step closer to speaking English. Lets move on to the seccond lesson in this learning arrangement.

In this lesson you will learn about the Subject Pronoun and the Object Pronoun.

# Subject Pronoun

The Subject Pronoun is something or someone who is performing the action in a sentence. It is often the subject (=onderwerp) of the sentence.

For example: She is baking cookies.
The subject pronoun is she!

It is always important to know how you speak to/about a person, so we use the following personal pronouns.

Pay attention to the following things:

- I is always capitalized, even in the middle of a sentence!
- English has only one form for "jij, u, jullie" --> you and you: you.
- When you talk about things, you use it. This is also the case with animals whose sex is unknown or unimportant. For example: That's a parrot. It sits on a plant; That's a parrot. He is sitting on a plant.
- When translating she, you have to pay attention to whether it is about 1 person (= she) or about several people (= they).

# Object Pronoun

The Object Pronoun is someone/something receiving the action in a sentence. You can find it by asking the question "Who does what?". The answer to that question is then the Object Pronoun.

An object Pronoun is placed at the end of the sentence, usually after the main verb. BUT...If there is a preposition in the sentence (such as to or with), the object pronoun is immediately after it.