Object pronouns: me, him, her, them – subject and object pronouns exercises for A1
About this lesson
This A1 drill lesson gives object pronouns exercises on me, you, him, her, it, us and them after a verb or a preposition, set against the subject pronouns.
- Grammar
- Subject to object (I → me, he → him, they → them), it or them for things, the object after like or need, listen to me but tell me, and her as object or possessive.
- Topic
- A wedding in New Orleans with invented people: the planning group chat, the planner's email, the groom's speech and a thank-you note for wedding gifts.
- Activities
- Sorting, pronoun choices, gap-fills, drag-and-drop texts, word order, matching, tables, mistake quizzes, a chat with Beth the planner and a final test.
What's inside
Chapter 1The rule
Chapter 2I or me? He or him?
- Choose the subject or the object pronounChoose the optionTry it
- Fill in the gaps: a pronoun for the words in bracketsFill in the gapsUnlock
- Drag the pronouns into the gapsDrag and dropUnlock
- Put the words in the right orderUnjumbleUnlock
- Match the sentences: subject and objectMatchUnlock
- Fill in the table: subject and object pronounsFill in the tableUnlock
- Find the mistake and choose the right wordsQuizUnlock
Chapter 3Things: it or them?
- Sort the words: it or them?Sort into columnsUnlock
- Choose the right pronoun for thingsChoose the optionUnlock
- Fill in the gaps: don't forget the objectFill in the gapsTry it
- Choose the right answerQuizUnlock
- Fill in the gaps: one thing or more?Fill in the gapsUnlock
- Read the note from Mom and drag the words into the gapsDrag and dropUnlock
- Put the words in the right order: thingsUnjumbleUnlock
Chapter 4With me, for her, to them
- Choose the right pronoun after a prepositionChoose the optionUnlock
- Fill in the gaps: pronouns after with, for, to, atFill in the gapsUnlock
- Sort the phrases: possessive or object?Sort into columnsUnlock
- Choose the possessive or the object pronounChoose the optionUnlock
- Read the message to the cousins and drag the words into the gapsDrag and dropTry it
- Put the words in the right order: prepositionsUnjumbleUnlock
- Read the birthday post and fill in the gapsFill in the gapsUnlock
- Find the mistake: object or possessive?QuizUnlock
Chapter 5Real life: Planning a wedding
- Read the wedding group chatReal-life documentUnlock
- Read the chat again: true or false?True or falseUnlock
- Read the email from Beth and fill in the gapsFill in the gapsUnlock
- Read the speech and choose the right wordsChoose the optionUnlock
- Read the thank-you note and drag the words into the gapsDrag and dropUnlock
- Choose the right replies: Beth texts youChatTry it
- Test yourself: choose the right answerQuizUnlock
Chapter 6Homework
- Choose the right pronoun: at schoolChoose the optionUnlock
- Write the right pronoun: a familyFill in the gapsUnlock
- Fill in the gaps: things in the houseFill in the gapsUnlock
- Sort the sentences: him, her or them?Sort into columnsUnlock
- Put the words in the right order: requestsUnjumbleUnlock
- Match the problems and the solutionsMatchUnlock
- Read the postcard and drag the words into the gapsDrag and dropUnlock
- Choose the correct sentenceQuizUnlock
- Fill in the table: subject, object and possessiveFill in the tableUnlock
- Write the pronoun after the prepositionFill in the gapsUnlock
- Choose the right words in the repliesChoose the optionUnlock
- Find the matching pairs: words and pronounsMemory gameUnlock
- Put the words in the right order: questionsUnjumbleUnlock
- Read the note for the babysitter and fill in the gapsFill in the gapsUnlock
- Find the mistake in each sentenceQuizUnlock
Grammar: subject and object pronouns
A subject pronoun comes before the verb; an object pronoun comes after a verb or a preposition: She calls me. I call her. Five of the seven change form (me, him, her, us, them), while you and it stay the same. Object pronouns stand for people and for things.
Object pronouns: me, him, her, them
After a verb or a preposition, use an object pronoun: Call me. I love it. Come with us!
I → me, he → him, they → them
Each subject pronoun has an object form: I → me, he → him, she → her, we → us, they → them. The object goes after the verb: My mom calls me every day. My cousins live in Texas. I miss them.
verb or preposition + object pronoun
verb or prepositionme · you · him · her · it · us · them
Call me later.
Simone loves him.
Dance with me!
Subject and object
| Subject (before the verb) | Object (after the verb) | Example |
|---|---|---|
| I | me | My mom calls me every day. |
| you | you | I can see you. |
| he | him | Do you know him? |
| she | her | We like her a lot. |
| it | it | This is my new bike. I love it. |
| we | us | Please call us tonight. |
| they | them | My cousins live in Texas. I miss them. |
After a verb, after a preposition
Prepositions take the object form too: with me, for her, to them, at us. So it's Sit with me!, not with I, and This photo is for us, not for we. After a verb, the same: Help me!, not Help I!; She loves him, not She loves he.
After a verb, after a preposition
After a verb
- Help me! · Call him. · Tell them.
- Tom loves her. (Not: Tom loves she.)
- Help us, please! (Not: Help we.)
After a preposition
- with me · for her · to them · at us
- Sit with me! (Not: with I.)
- This photo is for us. (Not: for we.)
Common mistakes
Help I!
Help me!
after a verb: me, not I
She loves he.
She loves him.
he → him, she → her
Call they today.
Call them today.
they → them, we → us
Yes, I like.
Yes, I like it.
don't forget the object
It or them for things
It replaces one thing, and them two or more things or people: The soup is hot. Don't eat it now. These shoes are too small. I can't wear them. Jeans and glasses are plural, so they take them.
it: one thing
- The soup is hot. Don't eat it now.
- My watch is old, but I love it.
them: two or more things or people
- These shoes are too small. I can't wear them.
- The kids are in the yard. Call them, please.
Don't forget the object
Verbs such as like, love, need, want, have and know need an object: Do you know Tariq? Yes, I know him. Yes, I like on its own is wrong. Short replies use the object form as well: Me too! It's me.
Don't forget the object!
Verbs like like, love, need, want, have, know need an object. Do you like the cake? Yes, I like it. (Not: Yes, I like.) Do you know Tariq? Yes, I know him. (Not: Yes, I know.)
Examples
- Tell him about the party!an order + object
- Can you call me tonight?a question
- I'm tired. — Me too!I am tired too
- Hi, Mom! It's me.on the phone or at the door
- These jeans are cool. I want them!them for things
- I see her every day. Her bag is red.her: object and possessive
Listen to me, but tell me
Some verbs need a preposition before the pronoun: Listen to me. Look at them. Wait for us. Others take none: Tell me and call him, never tell to me. And it's Explain it to me, not Explain me.
Listen to me, tell me, explain it to me
Some verbs need to, at or for: Listen to me. Look at them. Wait for us. (Not: Listen me.) Tell, call, help, ask need no to: Tell me. Call him. (Not: Tell to me.) And: Explain it to me, please. (Not: Explain me.)
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What's in the lesson
- 41 auto-checked exercises
- 6 games
- 1 real-life document
- 1 grammar scheme
- 1 picture
The main objectives of this lesson are to:
- change a subject pronoun into an object pronoun after a verb: Grandpa tells funny stories. The kids love him.
- use it for one thing and them for two or more: My glasses are on the table. Can you bring them to me?
- keep the object after verbs like like and need: Do you like my new dress? – Yes, I like it, not Yes, I like
- put object pronouns after with, for, to and at: Sit with me! This cake is for them.
- tell the object her from the possessive her: Jenny can't find her keys. Let's buy some flowers for her.
Object pronouns: me, him, her, them is lesson 16 of the 24 in English Grammar Practice · A1, and it belongs on the pronouns page. It follows lesson 15, Imperatives: open, don't run, let's go, and comes before lesson 17, Possessive 's: whose bag is this?; lesson 3 taught the subject pronouns it builds on. A drill lesson teaches no new words, so this one can back up any A1 course.
After the scheme, four short drills sort and choose the forms. I or me? He or him? has seven exercises that set subject against object, from a drag-and-drop to a find-the-mistake quiz. Things: it or them? drills one thing against several and the object after like or need, with a note from Mom. With me, for her, to them brings in prepositions and the possessives my, his and our, plus Nina's message about a surprise party. In the real-life chapter, students read a wedding group chat, fill in the planner's email, the groom's speech and a thank-you note, answer Beth's texts on the wedding day and end with a 12-question test.
The 15 homework tasks check themselves and use new sentences: pronouns at school and in a family, things in the house, a him-her-them sort, requests in word order, problems and solutions, Emma's postcard from Colorado, a three-column pronoun table, a memory game, questions to order, a babysitter's note and one more find-the-mistake quiz.
- Grammar:
- object pronouns · subject vs object pronouns · it / them · pronouns after prepositions
- Topic:
- grammar practice · wedding · family · requests
Teaching tips
- Point and swap: point at a student and say She is Ana. The class answers with the object form: I see her. Let's sit with her. Go through all seven pronouns before the scheme.
- Hold up objects for it and them: one pen, then three; one shoe, then a pair. Students answer Do you want it? or Do you want them? Add jeans and glasses, which always take them.
- Accept no bare Yes, I like: ask quick questions about food and music, and take only answers with an object: Yes, I like it. No, I don't like them.
- Mark the two kinds of her in Mia's birthday post in chapter 4: students underline her before a noun (possessive) and circle her after a verb or preposition (object).
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The whole course: English Grammar Practice · A1
English Grammar Practice · A1 has 24 drill lessons for adult beginners, one grammar point each, from the verb to be and the present simple to can, was and were and telling the time. Each has the rule as a scheme, 43 to 47 exercises that check themselves, 15 of them for homework, and no new words, so it works next to any course.See the course
- 1To be: I am, you are, she is
- 2To be negatives and questions: is it your bag?
- 3Subject pronouns and possessive adjectives: I, my, she, her
- 4This, that, these, those: what's this?
- 5Plural nouns: one box, two boxes
- 6A, an, the: a new apartment
- 7There is, there are: what's in the hotel?
- 8Have and has: she has a dog
- 9Present simple: she works, they work
- 10Present simple: don't, doesn't, do you…?
- 11Adverbs of frequency: always, usually, never
- 12In, on, at: times, days and months
- 13Prepositions of place: in, on, under, next to
- 14Can and can't: I can swim
- 15Imperatives: open, don't run, let's go
- 16Object pronouns: me, him, her, them
- 17Possessive 's: whose bag is this?
- 18Present continuous: what's happening now?
- 19Present simple or present continuous: every day or now?
- 20Like, love, hate + -ing: I love dancing
- 21Wh- questions: what, where, when, why?
- 22Countable and uncountable nouns: some, any, how much?
- 23Was and were: where were you yesterday?
- 24Telling the time and dates: what time is it?