This document discusses personal pronouns and their different cases. It begins by explaining the three persons that personal pronouns can be in - first, second, and third. It then defines the subjective, objective, and possessive cases that pronouns can take, and provides examples for each. Students are instructed to determine the case of pronouns on a board and justify their answers. Exercises are provided for students to practice identifying pronoun cases in sentences.

1. VALENTINE
’S SEASON

2. How do you
express your
love?

3. EXPRESS YOUR FEELINGS!
Direction: You are about to watch a
video which contains love quotes.
Choose the line that you think
matches with your feelings right
now.

5. Write down your
feelings!
• Write on the board the
love quote that you
have chosen.
• Draw a heart shape on
the pronouns.
• What kind of pronoun are
they?

6. PERSONAL PRONOUN
• A personal pronoun can be in one of three
“persons.” A first-person pronoun refers to
the speaker, a second-person pronoun
refers to the person being spoken to, and a
third-person pronoun refers to the person
being spoken of.

7. PERSONAL PRONOUN
FIRST
PERSON
I / Me / My
We / Us / Our or Ours
SECOND
PERSON
You / You / Your
You / You / Your or
Yours
THIRD
PERSON
He, She, It / Him, Her,
It / Its, Mine
They / Them /
Their or Theirs
SINGULA
R
PLURAL
• What is/are the role/s of the pronoun/s in
each statement?

8. CASES OF PRONOUN
• Case refers to the form a noun or
pronoun takes depending on its
function in a sentence. English
pronouns have three cases:
subjective, objective, and
possessive.

9. SUBJECTIVE CASE
Examples:
1. I have a big chocolate bar.
2. You have some ice cream.
3. He has a cake.
4. We could have a party.
5. They could come, too.
Singular: I, You, He, She,
It
Plural: We, You, They
• A subjective pronoun acts as a subject in a
sentence.
(Nominative Case)

10. OBJECTIVE CASE
Examples:
1. Give the chocolate to me , please.
2. Why should I give the money to you ?
3. You could give the letter to him , instead.
4. Please share the water with all of us .
5. Do we have to share the water with them ?
Singular: Me, You, Him, Her,
It
Plural: Us, You, Them
• The objective case is used when something is being
done to (or given to, etc.) someone.
(Accusative Case)

11. POSSESSIVE CASE
Examples:
1. That’s my shirt.
2. That shirt is mine.
3. The house is theirs.
4. It’s their house.
5. The dog is scratching its ear.
1st type: Singular: My, Your, His Her, Its
Plural: Our, Your, Their
• The possessive pronouns show that something (or
someone) belongs to someone (or something).
2nd type: Singular: Mine, Yours, His,
Hers
Plural: Ours, Yours, Theirs

13. EXERCISES:
Oral exercise:
• Determine which case is the
pronoun being selected on the
board and justify your answer.
Written exercises:
• Get your notebook.

14. Part I: Copy and answer.
Direction: Circle the correct case of the pronoun in
each sentence below.
1. Maria and (her, she) laughed and talked well into the
night.
2. (Him, He) and I just don’t seem to get along very well
these days.
3. It was (her, she) who used the computer for three
hours.
4. Cora handed Tom and (I, me) the employment
applications.
5. Between you and (I, me), cases of pronouns can be