Pronouns Galore!

In this video from The Raven & the Writing Desk, we go over Pronouns and how they are used in speech. There is a discussion of preferred pronouns as well as use of the first and second person in speech and in writing. Be sure to watch the other videos in our Parts of Speech series!

Timestamps

00:00 Welcome to The Raven & the Writing Desk
00:22 What's a Pronoun?
01:36 Disclaimer
02:25 Review Subjects & Objects
03:04 English and Grammatical Gender
03:53 Third Person Pronouns
04:05 Preferred Pronouns
06:14 Using Preferred Pronouns
08:30 They/them as a Singular Pronoun
09:17 Third Person Reflexive Pronouns
10:50 First Person Pronouns
11:55 I vs Me
13:21 Warning! Always use "I" for the First Person Subject
14:01 First Person Plural Pronouns
14:31 First Person Possessive Pronouns
15:34 First Person Reflexive Pronouns
16:41 Second Person Pronouns
18:01 Second Person and Subjects/Objects
18:25 Second Person Possessive Pronouns
19:07 Second Person Reflexive Pronouns
19:16 Pronouns in Formal Writing
21:10 Warning! No Second Person in Formal Writing
22:14 Interrogative Pronouns
23:08 Examples of Interrogative Pronouns
24:47 Compound Interrogative Pronouns
25:43 Interrogative Pronouns as Statements
26:32 Recap

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