SKILL 43: DISTINGUISH SUBJECT AND OBJECT PRONOUNS
Subject and object pronouns can be confused on the TOEFL test, so you should be able to recognize these two types of pronouns:
A subject pronoun is used as the subject of a verb. An object pronoun can be used as the object of a verb or the object of a preposition. Compare the following two sentences.
• Sally gave the book to John.
• She gave it to him.
In the second sentence the subject pronoun “she” is replacing the noun “Sally”. The object of the verb “it” is replacing the noun “book”, and the object of the preposition “him” is replacing the noun “John”.
The following are examples of the types of subject or object pronoun errors that you might see on the TOEFL test.
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• The gift was intended for you and
In the first example, the object pronoun “him” is Incorrect because this pronoun serves as the subject of the sentence. The object pronoun “him” should be changed to the subject pronoun “he”. It can be difficult to recognize that “him” is the subject because the verb are has a double subject, “him and girl”. In the second example, the subject pronoun “I” is incorrect because this pronoun serves as the object of the preposition for: The subject pronoun “I” should be changed to the object pronoun “me”. It can be difficult to recognize that “l” is the object of the preposition “for” because the preposition “for” has two objects: the correct object “you” and the incorrect object “I”.
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