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Classroom
Today
Learn about
English
personal subjective
pronouns |
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Today in the Fun Easy English classroom you are going to learn about
personal subjective pronoun an important part of English
grammar. |
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 Grammar:
Personal
Subjective Pronouns
Definition of a
personal subjective pronoun. |
- A personal subjective pronoun is a word that:
- refers to a specific person or thing
- replaces a
noun (subject)
that performs an action
- changes form to indicate
person,
number, and
gender
- makes no distinction between
singular and
plural forms of "you"
- Note: the
pronoun "they" can be a
singular noun in some cases
- Example: A person called and they did
not leave their name.
- In this
sentence, the
gender of the person is not identified
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- I went to the supermarket with her.
- She went to the supermarket with me.
- The following words are personal subjective pronouns
- I, you, he, she, we, they, it
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 From
YOUR Teacher: Personal
Subjective Pronouns
Personal subjective pronouns are words which simply
replace a noun that performs an action in a sentence.
John went to the
supermarket with Jane, becomes,
He went to the supermarket with her.
He replaces
John. |
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Additional Lessons |
 About These
Lessons
The following classroom lessons are great for students
who want additional conversation, listening, and reading
practice. |
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Conversation Lesson -
Beginner Level. Dialogs for everyday use.
Short situational dialogs for students of English as
a Foreign (EFL) or Second (ESL) Language with a
written conversation and a conversation notes
section.
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 Conversation Lesson
17 - Safety
(Beginner -
Conversation, Reading)
Dialogs for everyday use. Short situational dialogs for
students of English as a Foreign (EFL) or Second (ESL)
Language. |
Safety
Peter: There’s the
shoe store we’ve been looking for. It’s
just
across the street.
Gail: Wait! You can’t cross the street in the middle of the
block! You have to cross at the corner.
Peter: Oh, come on. Let’s go across
here.
Gail: Look out! You nearly got hit by that car!
Now do you see why you should cross at the corner?
Peter: I guess you’re right.
I’ll be more careful after this. |
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Conversation Notes |
- There’s the
- This is the “pointing out” there (the adverb, not the
introductory function word), and therefore it receives a strong stress.
- shoe store
- A compound noun; therefore the first word is singular
and receives the principal stress.
- the shoe store we’ve been looking
for
- This is the usual, natural way to say this, omitting the
relative pronoun and putting the preposition at the end. The shoe store that
we’ve been looking for is also possible. However, for which we’ve been
looking is extremely unlikely in this natural conversational context. Notice
how the present perfect progressive emphasizes the immediate, continuous
nature of the activity.
- just across the street
- Meaning is directly across the street, exactly across
the street.
- Oh, come on
- As used here, means something like Oh, don’t be so
careful and scrupulous! The phrase come on is frequently used to mean Hurry
along. Don’t delay! Note that the twoword verb come ON has the stronger stress on the
adverbial element on.
- Look out
- Meaning is be careful! Be alert! The phrase Watch out
means the same thing.
- see
- Meaning is understand.
- why you should cross
- Note that the indirect question has the normal word
order of a statement, with the subject before the verb. (In the
corresponding direct question the word order would be: Why should you
cross…?)
- I guess
- Meaning is I think (that).
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Source: U.S. State Department |
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Additional Conversation |
 Conversation
This is a collection of 36 situational conversations
which focus on spoken American English in a relatively
natural way....these
lessons are for intermediate students. |
 Conversation
This is a collection of 30 situational conversations. Each conversation is
accompanied by language notes....these
lessons are for advanced students. |
 Conversation
English conversation lessons. 52
lessons covering pronunciation, speaking,
writing, and grammar topics....these
lessons are for beginning students. |
 Conversation
English conversation lessons. 30
lessons focusing mostly on communication and
grammar topics....these
lessons are for intermediate students. |
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