PROBLEM
22. NEGATIVE IMPERATIVES

Please don’t tell anyone.
 

Would you please not tell anyone?


 

PROBLEM WITH PRONOUNS
23.  -ING FORM MODIFIED BY POSSESSIVE PRONOUNS

We can count on her helping us.

He regretted their misunderstanding him.

NOTE: Remember that the following are possessive pronouns:

MY
YOUR
HIS
HER
ITS
OUR
YOUR
THEIR

PROBLEM WITH PRONOUNS
24. SUBJECT AND OBJECT PRONOUNS

 If the weather is good Ellen and I will go to the beach.

Note: Remember that the following pronouns are subject pronouns.

I, YOU, HE, SHE, IT, WE, YOU, THEY.

It is he whom the committee has named.

They asked us, Jane and me, whether we were satisfied.

Note: Remember that the following pronouns are object pronouns:

ME, YOU, HER, HIM, IT, US, YOU, THEM.

Let us, you and me try to reach an agreement.

 

PROBLEM WITH PRONOUNS
25. PROPOSITIONS WITH OBJECT PRONOUNS

I would be glad to take a message for her.

Note: Remember that the following prepositions are commonly used with object pronouns.

Among
From
Between
For
To
With

 

PROBLEM WITH PRONOUNS
26. RELATIVE PRONOUNS WHICH REFERS TO PERSONS

Everyone who took the tour was impressed by the painting.
 

He was the only American whom I saw at the conference.

PROBLEM WITH PRONOUNS
27. RELATIVE PRONOUNS WHICH REFER TO PERSONS AND THINGS

She is the secretary who works in the international office.

This is the new computer  which you ordered.