Grammar of you

• 0 Pronouns: personal (I, me, you, him, it, they, etc.)

  We use personal pronouns in place of noun phrases. We often use them to refer back to people and things that we have already identified (underlined):

• 1 Subject and object pronouns

  Personal subject pronouns act as the subject of a clause. We use them before a verb to show who is doing the verb. We do not usually leave out the pronoun:

• 2 I, me

  We use I and me to refer to the speaker or writer. I is the subject form and me is the object form:

• 3 You

  We use you to refer to the listener or reader. It is both the subject and the object form. You can refer to one person or more than one person. It is usually clear from the context whether you is singular or plural:

• 4 He, him; she, her

  He, him, she and her are singular third person pronouns. He and him are the masculine forms. She and her are the feminine forms: