{"id":133,"date":"2017-10-03T16:36:15","date_gmt":"2017-10-03T16:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/courses.dcs.wisc.edu\/wp\/grammar\/?p=133"},"modified":"2019-06-26T17:05:12","modified_gmt":"2019-06-26T17:05:12","slug":"direct-and-indirect-object-pronouns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.dcs.wisc.edu\/wp\/grammar\/direct-and-indirect-object-pronouns\/","title":{"rendered":"English"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Object pronouns<\/strong> replace direct and indirect objects in a sentence. These pronouns help eliminate unnecessary repetition. Here are the English <strong>object pronouns<\/strong> used to replace both direct and indirect objects:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>singular: me, you, him, her, it<\/li>\n<li>plural: us, you, them<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Let&#8217;s use some examples from the previous section to illustrate how pronouns work. If we suppose that we have a friend named Alex and we have been talking about him for a while, it is unnecessary to repeat his name each time.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What time did you call <em>Alex<\/em>? (<em>Whom<\/em> did you call? <em>Alex.<\/em> Alex is the direct object.)<\/li>\n<li>What time did you call <em>him<\/em>? (<em>Alex<\/em> is replaced with the third person singular object pronoun, <em>him<\/em>.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here is another example, this time with an indirect object replaced with a pronoun:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We spoke to <em>the teacher<\/em>. (<em>To whom<\/em> did we speak?\u00a0<em>The teacher<\/em>. The teacher is the indirect object pronoun.)<\/li>\n<li>We spoke to <em>him\/her<\/em>. (The pronouns\u00a0<em>him<\/em> or\u00a0<em>her<\/em> could be used to replace the indirect object here.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Let&#8217;s see an example with two pronouns:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I sent <em>Margaret<\/em> <strong>the letter<\/strong> yesterday. (We know from the first example above that <em>the letter<\/em> is the direct object pronoun. Now let&#8217;s ask,\u00a0<em>to whom <\/em>did I send the letter? <em>To Margaret<\/em>. Margaret is the indirect object.) Alternative: I sent <strong>the letter<\/strong> <em>to Margaret<\/em> yesterday.<\/li>\n<li>I sent\u00a0<em>her <strong>it<\/strong><\/em> yesterday. Alternative: I sent\u00a0<strong>it<\/strong>\u00a0<em>to her<\/em> yesterday.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Object pronouns replace direct and indirect objects in a sentence. These pronouns help eliminate unnecessary repetition. Here are the English object pronouns used to replace both direct and indirect objects: singular: me, you, him, her, it plural: us, you, them &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/courses.dcs.wisc.edu\/wp\/grammar\/direct-and-indirect-object-pronouns\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-direct-and-indirect-object-pronouns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.dcs.wisc.edu\/wp\/grammar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.dcs.wisc.edu\/wp\/grammar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.dcs.wisc.edu\/wp\/grammar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.dcs.wisc.edu\/wp\/grammar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.dcs.wisc.edu\/wp\/grammar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/courses.dcs.wisc.edu\/wp\/grammar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":699,"href":"https:\/\/courses.dcs.wisc.edu\/wp\/grammar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions\/699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.dcs.wisc.edu\/wp\/grammar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.dcs.wisc.edu\/wp\/grammar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.dcs.wisc.edu\/wp\/grammar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}