Lesson 5: Understanding

The English Sentence

Bruce Clary, McPherson College, McPherson, Kansas

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IO: Indirect Objects

We have learned three basic sentence patterns:

S-V

S-V-DO

S-V-SC

Sentences with transitive verbs and direct objects

sometimes have another complement called the
indirect object.

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S-V-IO-DO
The indirect object acts as the receiver of the
direct object.
Ex: Jo sent me her paper.
Ex: Coach Quint gave Greg high marks for his hustle.
Ex: Lisa sent the school district her rsum.

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Pronoun Case
Pronouns take the place of nouns. Case is the way
words change form in order to show dierent
relationships with other words in a sentence.

Subjects and predicate nominatives require

nominative case pronouns.
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All objects (direct objects, indirect objects, objects

of prepositions, etc.) take objective case pronouns.
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Personal Pronouns
Nominative
Case

Objective
Case

Possessive
Case

you

he

she

it

we

they

me

you

him

her

it

us

them

mine

yours

his

hers

its

ours

theirs

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Reflexive/Intensive Pronouns
are pronouns that end in self or selves. A reflexive
pronoun names a receiver of the action identical
with the doer of the action. An intensive pronoun
emphasizes a noun or another pronoun.

Ex: The vampire bit himself.

Ex: I myself love to diagram sentences.
Ex: She made a pact with herself never to conspire

with bad grammarians or poor spellers.

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Using Pronoun Case

(We / Us) students all look forward to Fall Break.
I emailed Marlon and (she / her) a file.
Send those directions to Alaina and (I / myself / me).
It was (he / him / himself) whom the umpire ejected.
The ref ejected (who / whom) ?

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More Practice with Pronoun Case

Miranda and (he / him) look unhappy with Ryan.
Seth looked skeptically at Marissa and (she / her).
Becki asked (us / we) students to listen carefully.
To (she / her) and (I / me), this drink tastes sour.
President Schneider recognized both (she / her) and
(he / him).