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Yesterday we started learning direct object pronouns.

Today we're going to learn two more of them,

but first, if you're as nerdy about grammar as I am, there's a question you might have after

yesterday. What do we do with this sentence structure? She ate that, or she ate

eso. The word esau here is interchangeable with him. You could say she ate him.

So that makes it a direct object, right? So it should go before the verb ate? But the thing is,

a direct object only goes before the verb if it's a specific type of pronoun called a direct object pronoun. For example, check out this sentence,

she ate food. In this case, the noun food would remain after the verb.

You only have to put the direct object before the verb if it's one of these little picky pronouns,

the type in the subcategory of direct object pronouns.

Words like him or her, or it, or even them, she ate them, you, she ate you, and me, she ate me.

This is a category of pronouns that you should learn how to identify because of how important

this rule is.

Let's go ahead and practice it now. I'll present some sentence

examples and you should see if you can identify whether we're using a direct object pronoun,

such as him, her, or them, or if it should instead stay after the verb. First example, we ate the bread. So our noun here, the bread, is a direct object,

but since it's not a direct object pronoun, it doesn't move before eight. So this sentence

remains structured how it is.

Next, they found me.

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