Object pronoun
In
English
The English personal and interrogative pronouns have the following subject and object forms:
Singular subject pronoun |
Singular object pronoun |
---|---|
I | me |
you | |
he | him |
she | her |
it |
Plural subject pronoun |
Plural object pronoun |
---|---|
we | us |
you | |
they | them |
Interrogative subject pronoun |
Interrogative object pronoun |
---|---|
who | whom |
what |
Archaic second person forms
Historically, Middle English and Early Modern English retained the T–V distinction; the second person pronoun had separate singular/familiar and plural/formal forms with subject and object forms of both. In standard modern forms of English, all second person forms have been reduced to simply "you". These forms are still retained (sometimes partially) in some dialects of Northern English, Scottish English, and in the Scots language, a Germanic language closely related to English which diverged from it during the Early Modern period.
Singular/familiar subject pronoun |
Singular/familiar object pronoun |
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thou | thee |
Plural/formal subject pronoun |
Plural/formal object pronoun |
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ye | you |
Other languages
In some languages the direct object pronoun and the indirect object pronoun have separate forms. For example, in the
History
Object pronouns, in languages where they are distinguished from subject pronouns, are typically a vestige of an older
For a discussion of the use of historically object pronouns in subject position in English (e.g. "Jay and me will arrive later"), see the article on English personal pronouns.
See also
References
- ^ Randolph Quirk, Sidney Greenbaum, Geoffrey Leech, and Jan Svartvik, A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language (London: Longman, 1985), p. 337.