Grammar Devotional (2 of 28)
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Grammar Devotional by Mignon Fogarty. Copyright 2009 by Mignon Fogarty, Inc.
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Day 2
I Love You: Subject Versus Object
To figure out things such as when to use who or whom or lay or lie, you need to be able to identify the subject and object of a sentence.
Fortunately, it’s easy! The subject is the person or thing doing something, and the object is having something done to it.
Just remember the sentence I love you. I is the subject. You is the object of the sentence and also the object of my affection. How’s that? You are the object of my affection and the object of my sentence. It’s like a Valentine’s Day card and grammar trick all rolled into one.
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