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Heather Marie Kosur is a linguist and grammarian who has written many articles on pronouns in the English language. She argues that the English case system is dead is as evidenced by the use of subject pronouns as objects and object pronouns as subjects.

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Guide to Pronouns: Grammar, Lesson Plans, Activities, and More

Pronouns: Heather Marie Kosur The traditional definition of a pronoun is a word that can take the place of another word, most notably nouns and noun phrases but also other grammatical forms such as noun clauses and prepositional phrases. Pronouns perform all or most of the nominal grammatical functions such as subject, direct object, indirect object, and prepositional complement. Examples of pronouns include you and whom in English, yo and te in Spanish, and Sie and ihnen in German.

If you are a language student looking for information on the pronoun in any number of languages, look no further than this grammar guide to pronouns. Find information on the forms and functions of pronouns in English, Spanish, German, French, Chinese, and more. Language teachers can also find lesson plans and activities for teaching the pronoun to language students.

An Elementary Lesson Plan on Pronouns Let this elementary lesson plan for pronouns lead your students to a better understanding of subject and object pronouns and their use....	Low-Tech But Intensive Foreign-Language Grammar Review The lights may go out. You need alternatives to constantly emerging technology. This is tried and true: Keep students on their toes with this low-tech method for doing intensive...
Pronoun Use and Written Accents for Spanish Commands Increase your Spanish fluency by learning more about pronoun use with the Spanish imperative mood, or commands....	Games to Help Kids Learn French Games are fun ways of learning French, especially for children.The games in this article teach, as well as reinforce the use of the personal pronouns and possessive pronouns, while...

An Elementary Lesson Plan on Pronouns

Let this elementary lesson plan for pronouns lead your students to a better understanding of subject and object pronouns and their use....

Pronoun Use and Written Accents for Spanish Commands

Increase your Spanish fluency by learning more about pronoun use with the Spanish imperative mood, or commands....

Lesson Plan: Teaching Pronouns

This article explains a lesson plan for teaching nominative and objective case pronouns....

Games to Help Kids Learn French

Games are fun ways of learning French, especially for children.The games in this article teach, as well as reinforce the use of the personal pronouns and possessive pronouns, while incorporating the use...

Possessive Determiners, Possessive Pronouns, and When to Use an Apostrophe

Often we have problems remembering the difference between the possessive determiners its, your, and their and the contractions it's, you're, and they're especially when writing in a hurry....

Lesson Plan: Teaching Pronouns

This article explains a lesson plan for teaching nominative and objective case pronouns....

Possessive Determiners, Possessive Pronouns, and When to Use an Apostrophe

Often we have problems remembering the difference between the possessive determiners its, your, and their and the contractions it's, you're, and they're especially when...