Pronoun Cases

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Pronoun Cases
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Nominative Case

• A pronoun in the nominative case (I, you, he,
  she, it, we, they, who, whoever) can only be
• A subject of a verb
• A predicate nominative

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Nominative Pronouns used as Subjects

• He and I were ready to dine when the waiter
  brought the baked porcupine to the table.

• Brigitte and they eat prunes because they hate to
  spit pits.

• Uncle Otto sold his dry cleaning shop after he
  and Aunt Lotty spent twenty years on the same
  spot.

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Nominative Pronouns used as Subjects

• Uncle Brett is the animal rights advocate who
  buys hats for rats that live in warm climates.

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Nominative Pronouns used as Predicate Nominatives

• A predicate nominative is a noun or pronoun that
  follows a linking verb (am, is, are, was, were,
  be, been).
• A predicate nominative renames the subject.

Godzilla is a jumbo lizard.
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Nominative Pronouns used as Predicate Nominatives

• A linking verb acts a wee bit like an equal
  sign. The predicate nominative renames the
  subject.

• The mayor is he.
• The expert on dirt is he.
• The winner of the one-person synchronized
  swimming event was I.

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Objective Case

• A pronoun in the objective case (me, you, him,
  her, it, us, them, whom, whomever) can only be
• A direct object
• An indirect object
• The object of a preposition
• (Get it? Why its called the  objective  case? I
  knew you would!)

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Objective Pronouns used as Direct and Indirect
Objects
Remember Direct objects are nouns or pronouns
that come after action verbs.

• A direct object answers the question whom? or
  what? after the verb.

• Jeeves wrestles octopi.
• Mrs. Street throws her computer after trying to
  write a powerpoint presentation.

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Objective Pronouns used as Direct and Indirect
Objects

• Claude saved him and me from a vicious pack of
  weiner dogs.

• Mrs. Street nearly hit him with the hurled Dell
  laptop.

• The squirrel bit her when she mocked him for
  standing still in the path of an oncoming car.

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Objective Pronouns used as Direct and Indirect
Objects

• Objective pronouns also act as indirect objects.
  Remember indirect objects answer the questions
  for whom? or to whom? about the direct object.
  Dont forget that indirect objects are nouns or
  pronouns that come between the verb and the
  direct object.
• After dinner I gave him vanilla ice cream for
  dessert.
• Ziggy gave Mimi and me noogies.

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Objective Pronouns used as Objects of Prepositions

• The object of the preposition is the noun or
  pronoun that follows a preposition.
• A tick is on your lip.
• The person with whom Godfrey was hobnobbing has a
  little glob of slobber running down his chin.
• Just between you and me, Cousin Delbert believes
  he is a parakeet.

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