Skill 21 : Subject and Object Pronouns

Pronouns are word such as he, she, or it that take the place of nouns. One common problem with pronouns in the TOEFL test is that subject pronouns are confused so you should be able to recognize these two types of pronouns.

SUBJECT	OBJECT
I You He She It We they	me You Him Her It Us Them

As the  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 or the object of a preposition. Compare the following two sentences.

Marie saw the film with Barry
She saw it with him.

In the second sentence, the subject pronoun she is replacing the noun Marie. The object of the verb it is replacing the noun film, and the object of the preposition him is replacing the noun Barry.

The following are examples of the types of subject pronoun or object pronoun errors that you might see on the TOEFL test.

Me and my friend are taking trip.
Our neighbors are going with you and I.

In the first example me is incorrect because this pronoun serve as the subject of the sentence.The object pronoun me should be changed to the subject pronoun I. It can be difficult to recognize that me is the subject because the verb are has a double subject, me and my friend. In the second example, the subject pronoun I is incorrect because this pronoun serves as the object of the preposition  with. The subject pronoun I should be changed to the object pronoun me. It can be difficult to recognize that I is the object of the preposition with because the preposition with has two objects : the correct you and the incorrect object I.