How to Use Objective Personal Pronouns

An objective personal pronoun shows that the pronoun in a sentence works as an object of verbs, compound verbs, prepositions or infinitive phrases. The objective personal pronouns include "you," "it," "me," "her," "you," "him," "us" and "them." Knowing how to use these handy parts of speech helps you avoid wordiness and cumbersome sentences.

Instructions

1. Review nouns as parts of speech. Review the purpose of pronouns. Practice identifying both in any written text.

2. Revisit the function of the different forms of verbs, such as simple and compound verbs. Be able to spot both and identify the object of each verb.

3. Choose a writing style. Some styles are terse and active while others are more cumbersome and passive. Use objective personal pronouns with terse and active sentences.

4. Employ these pronouns as substitutes for common and proper nouns. For example, change the sentence, "Mr. Evans forced Daniel to write the paper" to, "Mr. Evans forced him to write it."

5. Write an active sentence with an infinitive phrase. For example, "Mark will address the marketing research team." Identify that "marketing research team" serves as the object of "will address." Replace "marketing research team" with the word, "them" in the same sentence.

6. Draft a complete sentence. Locate a preposition and its object framed as a proper noun. Replace the object with an objective personal pronoun. For example, in the sentence, "Dianna was happy to talk to Rebecca," replace the proper noun, "Rebecca" with the word "her."

7. Prepare a sentence with two proper nouns and at least one compound verb. Locate the proper noun functioning as the object of the compound verb and substitute an objective personal pronoun for it. For example, in the sentence, "Cindy did find Mr. Smith", substitute the word "him" for "Mr. Smith."