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I, me, my, mine, myself.

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You, you, your, yours, yourself, and there's 
more! In today's lesson we are going to look  

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at all of these pronouns. We are going to look 
at each column one at a time. And in today's  

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lesson, I have three mini tests for you. Yes, three. 
To help you review everything you've learned.  

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My name's Arnel, let's start with 
the first column, subject pronouns.

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Subject pronouns. These are 
subject pronouns because  

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they are your subject. Your subject 
does the action. Subject sat on a bench.  

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I sat on a bench. You sat on a bench. In English, you 
can be singular or plural. So I can say you, or, you.

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He sat on a bench. She sat on 
a bench. It, it sat on a bench.  

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And for animals, we can use he or she, 
but if we don't know, it is perfect. 

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We sat on a bench. They sat on a 
bench. And, they is not just for people.  

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The tickets were expensive. They, 
they were expensive. That's also okay.

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Pronouns make life easy. Mark and Becca 
sat on a bench? They, they sat on a bench.  

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We can make things simpler. A bench, a bench, a 
bench. Do I constantly need to repeat myself?  

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They sat on it, we can also use object pronouns.

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Let's look at column two, object pronouns.  

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So, we know your subject does the action, 
and your object receives the action.  

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Mo sketched... object. If you sketch something, you 
make a simple drawing using a pen or pencil.  

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Mo sketched me. Mo sketched I? We need 
an object. Mo sketched you, singular  

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or plural. And, you is the same, subject pronoun, object 
pronoun, the same. Mo sketched him. Mo sketched  

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her. Mo sketched it. Again, subject pronoun, 
object pronoun, the same. Mo sketched us.

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Mo sketched them. Again, them is not just for people, 
them could be a pair of shoes. Mo sketched them.

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Common mistake! My mom and 
me went shopping together.  

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My mom and me? No, it should be my mom and I. 
Subjects right? My mom and i went shopping together.  

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You can see the editor 
immediately suggests a change.  

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Me and her live on the same street. Me 
and her? Those are object pronouns, we need  

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subjects. She and I. You can see the 
editor immediately suggests a change.

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And if you have more than one subject, I goes at 
the end. She and I. I and she? It doesn't sound so  

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natural. I Gary and Amber? Gary, Amber and I. 
The problem with this mistake is that many  

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many many native speakers make this mistake. Me 
and Gina are having lunch together next week.

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Gina and I. So you will hear this mistake a lot, 
in movies, on podcasts. So, for an English exam,  

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you want to use I, that's your subject. 
But in a conversation, day to day,  

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it's your choice. Are you ready for 
test number one? Choose the correct  

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subject pronoun or object pronoun for 
each box. Pause the video to do this.

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Okay, here are the answers. Let me know 
in the comments below how did you do?  

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And number seven might be a little bit confusing.  

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We need, you, because the teacher is 
talking to all of her students. You...

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Before we move on to column number three, 
let's look at a couple of exceptions.  

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We know, they is your subject, them is your object. 
Plural right? They visited me or I visited them.  

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Is it possible to use they 
and them for one person? Yes.  

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If we don't know if a person is a man or a 
woman, or, we don't care, they and them are fine.

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Somebody called you. What do they want?  

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They, one person. I don't know, I told them 
to send you an email. I told them, one person.

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Exception number two. It is your subject, it is 
your object. Is it possible to use it for people? No,  

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but we can use it to informally introduce 
someone. On the phone, hello? Hey, it's me. It is me.

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Who's at the door? Oh, it's the pizza 
delivery guy. It is the pizza delivery guy.

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Or, we often see this when we introduce a new 
baby. It's a boy, or, congratulations it's a girl.  

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So normally we would never use it for 
people, but sometimes it's possible.  

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Column number three. Possessive adjectives. 
Possessive adjective plus noun. We need a  

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noun, just like with a normal adjective. It was 
a hot day. Adjective, noun. Possessive adjective  

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plus noun. Everybody has a different signature. 
Box A has my signature. Box B has your signature.  

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Box C has his signature. Box D has her signature. 
I like her signature, it's letters are really  

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clear. It's, noun. It's letters. It's 
important you don't confuse it's with  

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it's, apostrophe. Same pronunciation. Its 
letters are really clear, possessive pronoun.  

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It's easy to read, it is easy to read. So when 
you're speaking it doesn't matter. But when you're  

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writing remember, there's a big difference between 
it's no apostrophe and it's with apostrophe.  

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I know this is confusing because 
normally when we show possession,  

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we have apostrophe, s, right? Arnel's signature with 
the apostrophe, Jim's phone with the apostrophe.  

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But we don't need an apostrophe with the 
possessive adjective, it's no apostrophe.

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Box E has our signatures. Notice the plural. 
Box F has their signatures. Notice the plural.

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And remember at the start of this lesson I 
said: Pronouns make life easy. Pronouns make  

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life easy. Do I need to repeat 
myself? My signature, your signature.  

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Box A has mine, Box B has 
yours. We can use possessive

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pronouns. Column four, Possessive pronouns. We 
know you need a possessive adjective plus  

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noun. If you put those together, 
you can form a possessive pronoun.  

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Teresa liked my logo design. Teresa 
liked mine. Your idea was the best.  

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Yours was the best. We can also start a 
sentence with a possessive pronoun, no problem.  

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We need his password, we need his. Possessive 
adjective, possessive pronoun, the same, his.

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That bag is her bag, that bag is hers.

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Don't touch its thorns, don't touch...

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With it's, there is no possessive 
pronoun. We cannot say don't touch, its.

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You might see it's, the possessive 
pronoun, on a grammar chart.  

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But, you won't see an example 
sentence, because you can't...

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do that!

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It doesn't work. No it's as a possessive pronoun.

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Order number 32! Order 32? That's our order. That's  

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ours. You can't use their team 
name, you can't use theirs.

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Okay, when you use a possessive pronoun it 
needs to be clear what you're talking about.  

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You can't walk into your 
office and say, where is mine?

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Uh, where is your what? Oh,
my chair. Where is my chair?

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So it needs to be clear what you're talking about.  

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In this mini clip you will see a boss giving 
his employees their checks, their money.  

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Here's your check, and here's yours SpongeBob. Okay, 
first we need to make it clear, here is your check,  

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and here is yours. First possessive adjective, 
and then possessive pronoun. It needs to be  

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clear. Let's look at possessive 
pronouns and a bit more detail.  

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Jamie is a friend of mine, 
Clarissa is a classmate of his.

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Noun of possessive pronoun. This is a 
really common structure. We can also  

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use it at that front position. A friend of 
mine is staying with me over the holidays.

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So what's the difference between Jamie is 
a friend of mine, and Jamie is my friend?  

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Clarissa is a classmate of his or, Clarissa 
is his classmate, what's the difference?

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Many times these two structures can mean the same 
thing. But using the of structure is usually more  

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general, and it gives us the feeling there is 
more than one. For example, I have many friends  

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but Jamie is a friend of mine. He has many 
classmates, but Clarissa is a classmate.  

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You can really um feel this difference in my 
next example, tell me which sentence is correct.  

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Pete is my husband, or, Pete is a husband of mine.  

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The first one is correct, right? Because I have 
one husband. If I said Pete is a husband of mine,  

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that immediately gives someone the feeling I 
have more than one husband. One is enough! Test  

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number two. Replace each box with a 
possessive pronoun. Pause the video to do this.

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Okay, let me know in the comments how did you do?  

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Let's move on to column 
number five, reflexive pronouns.

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Last list of pronouns, I have two sentences. Bruce 
told Carla to relax. Troy and Michelle bought their  

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kids new bikes. Let's use pronouns we already know. 
He told her to relax. They bought them new bikes.  

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In these sentences it's clear the subject 
and the object are different people.

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What happens if the subject and the 
object are the same? He told him to relax?  

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He told himself to relax. Just relax. They bought 
themselves new bikes, you need reflexive pronouns.

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I accidentally gave myself a black 
eye when I was playing tennis.  

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You should cook for yourself 
more often, it's healthier.

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She bought herself a birthday present.

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This toilet, it closes

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itself. You made yourselves look bad 
when you're late for the meeting.

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We trapped ourselves in the basement because we 
forgot the key. If you want more information on  

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reflexive pronouns, I did make a whole lesson on 
this topic. I'll leave the link down below for you.  

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Right, test number three, choose the right answer.

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Ok, here are the answers. How did you do? Let me 
know in the comments how you did on the tests!  

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Thank you so much for watching, I can't wait to 
make another video for you! See you next time, bye!