Him, her, it. It's time to talk about law.

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We spent most of last week emphasizing word categories such as nouns and verbs. So what exactly

is the word hymn as far as word categories are concerned? Well, it's sort of used like a noun,

but it's not exactly the same as a general purpose noun, because we can't always put it in the place of other

nouns. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. To see why, check out these two sentence

examples. First, please bring food and then food makes me happy. So food is a noun, of course, which means that it's interchangeable with other nouns, including

Eso.

Please bring Eso, Eso makes me happy.

But the word him is a little pickier about how it's used.

We can replace food with him in the first sentence.

Please bring him.

Okay, that's fine.

But in the second sentence, replacing food with him would result in,

Him makes me happy.

That's a problem.

And this is because the word him is used in very specific ways.

Check out this sentence. He hugged him. We have two words here that function as nouns,

he and him. You could replace either one with food or you could replace either one with Esso. So why is one of

him, he and the other one, him? Technically speaking, it's because one of them is a subject and the other

is a direct object. Direct objects are a whole subcategory of words that are used like the word

him in English.

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