PRONOUN|CLASS 1| English Grammar for SSC CGL,CPO,CHSL,CDS | SBI/IBPS PO/Clerk |CET | Nimisha Bansal

Summary

The lesson introduces pronouns, focusing on personal pronouns, possessive forms, grammatical cases, and pronoun choice in comparisons.

1. What a pronoun does

A pronoun is a word used in place of a noun, often to avoid repeating a name or noun. For example, instead of repeating Sonu in several sentences, a speaker can use he. Other examples include they for unnamed people and it for a thing.

2. Personal pronouns

Personal pronouns are grouped by grammatical person:

• First person: the speaker
  • Singular: I
  • Plural: we
• Second person: the person or people being addressed
  • You is used for both singular and plural.
• Third person: someone or something being spoken about
  • Singular: he, she, it
  • Plural: they

Pronouns also have different forms depending on their grammatical case:

Person Subject form Object form First-person singular I me First-person plural we us Second person you you Third-person masculine singular he him Third-person feminine singular she her Third-person singular, things or unspecified gender it it Third-person plural they them

3. Possessive pronouns and possessive adjectives

These forms serve different roles:

• A possessive adjective (also called a possessive determiner) comes before a noun and describes who it belongs to: my book, her friend, their house.
• A possessive pronoun stands in place of a noun: The book is mine; the house is theirs.

Examples:

• It is my book — my comes before the noun.
• This book is mine — mine stands in place of the noun phrase.
• Her friend knows me well — her describes friend.
• Ours is a great country — ours stands in place of a noun phrase.

In standard English, the main possessive forms are:

Possessive adjective/determiner Possessive pronoun my mine our ours your yours his his her hers its — their theirs

4. Subject and object case

The lesson explains the basic distinction as follows:

• Use a subject form for the person or thing doing the action: She liked me.
• Use an object form for the person or thing receiving the action: She liked me, not She liked I.
• Use an object form after a preposition: between you and me, not between you and I.
• The same rule applies to let: Let me do the work, not Let I do the work.

In short, subject forms act as subjects, while object forms appear as objects of verbs or prepositions.

5. Possessive or genitive case

The lesson calls possession the possessive case, also known as the genitive case. It reviews possessive forms such as mine, yours, his, hers, ours, and theirs, as well as possessive adjectives such as my, your, his, her, our, and their.

6. Comparing pronouns

A major focus is choosing a pronoun form that fits the intended comparison:

• The instructor teaches that subject forms should be compared with subject forms, and object forms with object forms.
• She is taller than I is presented as the formal version of She is taller than I am.
• The lesson explains that the form used after than can change the meaning:
  • I like my brother more than she** means that I like my brother more than she likes him.
  • I like my brother more than her** means that I like my brother more than I like her.
• The class practises applying this distinction in sentences involving she/they, he/we, and other pronouns.

7. Practice and homework

Students are asked to correct sentences involving possessive forms, subject/object case, and comparisons. The instructor assigns three homework questions and asks students to submit their answers in the comments. She also says that lesson notes will be provided as a PDF and mentions a channel for further practice.

Note: The transcript contains several apparent speech-recognition errors, such as “vi” for “we,” “de” for “they,” and “are” for “our.” The forms above use standard English spellings.

Speakers and sources featured

• Nimisha Bansal — the instructor and primary speaker.
• Students/viewers — addressed by the instructor and invited to answer questions; no individual student is clearly identified as a speaker.