Inlinguistics, asubject pronoun is apersonal pronoun that is used as thesubject of a verb.[1] Subject pronouns are usually in thenominative case for languages with anominative–accusative alignment pattern. On the other hand, a language with anergative-absolutive pattern usually has separate subject pronouns for transitive and intransitive verbs: anergative case pronoun for transitive verbs and anabsolutive case pronoun for intransitive verbs.
InEnglish, the commonly used subject pronouns areI,you,he,she,it,one,we,they,who andwhat. With the exception ofyou,it,one andwhat, and in informal speechwho,[2] theobject pronouns are different: i.e.me,him,her,us,them andwhom (seeEnglish personal pronouns).
In some cases, the subject pronoun is not used for the logical subject. For example,exceptional case marking (ECM) constructions involve the subject of anon-finite clause which appears in the object form (e.g.,I wanthim to go.) Incolloquial speech, acoordinatedfirst person subject will often appear in the object form even in subject position (e.g.,Me and James went to the store.) This is corrected so often that it has led to cases ofhypercorrection, where the subject pronoun is used even in object position under coordination (e.g.,Marie gave Susana andI a piece of cake.)
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