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Personal pronouns are the words used in place of specific people, places or things.

NOTE: A version of this story originally appeared in 2019. Shige Sakurai, the founder of International Pronouns Day and the associate director of the LGBT Equity Center at the University of Maryland, College Park, spoke to CNN in 2019 about why the pronouns we use to refer to people matter and what to do if you slip up. Or maybe you know a friend, coworker or family member who could use some guidance on all this. Still, if you’ve been taught grammar a certain way, you might find that ensuring you’ve got the correct pronouns for someone or using “they” and “them” to refer to an individual takes some getting used to. How to be an ally to your LGBT friends, relatives and co-workers Bastiaan Slabbers/NurPhoto via Getty Images

The letter is on the sofa.Revelers at the 30th annual Pride Parade and Festival in Philadelphia on June 10.

You are sitting on it! (The listener probably doesn't know what the speaker refers to).

It needs to have already been mentioned or obvious to the We normally use object pronouns after a verb or a preposition.īe careful when using 'it' as an object pronoun because it is only in the correct context that it has meaning. It makes the sentence easier to read and understand and avoids repetition. Object pronouns are used instead of nouns, usually because we already know what the object is.

(Books is the object as it is receiving the action).

Objects are what is affected by the action of the subject. The seven basic pronouns have one form when they are used as subjects and another form when they are used as objects.