In linguistics, an object pronoun is a personal pronoun that is used typically as a grammatical object: the direct or indirect object of a verb, or the object of a preposition. Object pronouns contrast with subject pronouns. Object pronouns in English take the objective case, sometimes called the oblique case or object case.
For example, the English object pronoun me is found in "They see me" (direct object), "He's giving me my book" (indirect object), and "Sit with me" (object of a preposition); this contrasts with the subject pronoun in "I see them," "I am getting my book," and "I am sitting here."
Modern English
The English personal and interrogative pronouns have the following subject and object forms:
Middle English
Historically in Middle English the pronoun "you" had separate singular and plural forms with subjective and objective forms of both.
Other languages
In some languages the direct object pronoun and the indirect object pronoun have separate forms. For example, in Spanish, direct object: Lo mandaron a la escuela (They sent him to school) and indirect object: Le mandaron una carta (They sent him a letter). Other languages divide object pronouns into a larger variety of classes.
On the other hand, many languages, for example Persian, do not have distinct object pronouns: Man Farsi balad-am (I can speak Persian). Man ra mishenasad. (He knows me).
Gov. Kim Reynolds recently announced she intends to ask lawmakers for a ban on cellphones in Iowa’s K-12 classrooms ... including nouns, verbs, subjects, predicates, direct objects, conjunctions, and subjective, objective, and possessive pronouns ... .
You can draw a straight line from October 7, 2023 to November 5, 2024 ... an unholy coalition of power-hungry totalitarians ... Misuse pronouns? Off to HR. Object to transgender men using the women’s room or playing in girls sports? Off to reeducation ... Nuance.
How could I forget that it was wrong to use the object pronoun "me" when it was functioning as the subject in the sentence? I told myself. There's a reason why they're called subject and object pronouns, I was lecturing myself in my head.
Relative pronouns, you will recall, serve to link dependent clauses or phrases to their antecedent nouns, doing so as intermediate subjects or objects of those dependent clauses ... Relative pronouns as objects of the dependent clause.
Or go along with it, but gum up the works by using Trump-gendered pronouns (ILoveTrump/ TrumpIsAwesome), or throw out pronouns they have to think about (he/him when the subject of the sentence, she/her when the object of the sentence).
In writing, however, we can't point as easily to a particular object or noun, so we need a clear antecedent noun to establish the identity of the object that the demonstrative pronoun has replaced.
This is an excellent technique for avoiding the overuse of the pronouns "he," "she," and "one" in place of singular words designating people, the overuse of "it" in place of singular words designating ...
... particular offices or Department-wide.” There is no mention anywhere in the Guidance about accommodations for those with religious or conscience objections to the compelled use of incorrect pronouns.
... the Supreme Court of Virginia’s 2023 opinion that school boards may not compel an employee, over their objection, to refer to a student by pronouns that don’t correspond with the student’s sex.
Taking a highly contentious political issue like the gender wars and conflating objection to pronouns with hostility to a disabled person, as if the two things were remotely comparable or adjacent, is despicable.
According to the complaint, “Mr Vlaming’s conscience and religious practice prohibits him from intentionally lying, and he sincerely believes that referring to a female as a male by using an objectively male pronoun is telling a lie”.
ER Editor ... She came away horrified ... *** NOTES ... Teachers were also expected to introduce themselves to students by specifying which pronouns they preferred to use about themselves. When Creedon objected to this, she got an ideological reply ... Source ... ••••.
Vlaming’s conscience and religious practice prohibits him from intentionally lying, and he sincerely believes that referring to a female as a male by using an objectively male pronoun is telling a lie,”.
WE all know that when a sentence uses a transitive verb as the operative verb, it's absolutely necessary for the subject to take a direct object and to act on it ...Nothing really happens when there's no direct object to take the action.
Atlantic News Telegraph
05 Dec 2024
Atlantic News Telegraph
05 Dec 2024