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6
6A object pronouns: me, you, him, etc.
subjccl object
pro no un pronoun
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me C lIl you hel p me?
you ),ou J kllo\\ you.
I" him She i ~ n'( in lovc with him.
she he< He phones her evcry day.
;, ;,
I don"! like it.
we 0' Wail for u s!
t h c~ them Call1hcm Ihis e\'ening.
Prono uns lake Ih (> place o f nouns.
We use s ubject pronouns when the noun is the subject ora \'crb (Le. the
person who does the action): Jo"" is a doelor. He lives ill LOlldoll ,
We use object pro nouns when the no un is the o bject of a verb (i.e. the
person who receives rhe act ion): AIl1I11 meeu ) a/lll . She ill1'ites "i". 1011
cOllccr/ .
Object pronouns go afu:.r
the \'crb:
l io"(' ),011 . NOT Iymrfot't:.
• We also use object pro nouns
after prepositions (lI'ilh , /0 .
f rom. etc.):
U SICII /0 me! I 'm iu/oI'e wilh
her, NOT f!tn-irt-101"t"11-f'h-m~
He loves her but she doesn·t love him,
68 like (+ verb + -ing)
• We use vcrb + -i1l8 a ft er lik e. IDI·e, dO Il'1 milld. and hale.
~ " ~ " I love shopping. 3 3 4 »)
~ " I like going to the ci nema .
" I don't mind gCllingupearl y.
~ " I don't like doing housework .
~ " ~ " , hare driving at night.
spelling rules for the ·ing form
cook
study
dance
shop
l cooking
studying
dancing
shopping
spelling
add ·ing
e + ·;ng
-
one vowel + one consonant -
double consonant +-ing
1
6e bear do?
be
HLI'm Jim. 3 36 »)}
She is n't vcry fri endly.
Are YOII German?
2 J ca n't talk. I'm driving.
The}' aren't working today.
Is it raining?
do/does
Do you spea k Engli sh?
Where do they li\'c?
Thcy don't ha\·echildrcn.
Does your sister have a job?
What does your father do?
Alan does n't li ke j:l'l.z.
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P do as a main verb
Remember. we also use do as a
main verb.
"m doing my homework.
Does he do the housework?
1 \Ve use lJeas a main \·erb.
2 We also use be to form the prese ll!
continuous. Be here is an auxiliary
vcrb,
We use dofdoes and dO li', fdoeslI'lto
make questions and negatives in the
present sim ple.
Remember ASI and QUASI (Sec
G rammar Bank 3C 1'.128).