A Word, Please: If you’re an object in a sentence, use ‘me’ Grammar expert June Casagrande delves into whether to choose “me” or “I” when the pronoun is an object.

But in grammar, it’s more specific. In the case of object complements, the word “complement” refers to something that completes the object, making the sentence a whole thought.

English typically uses a strict SUBJECT VERB OBJECT (SVO) word order in simple sentences, as in Students (S) read (V) books (O). This SVO word order becomes altered in many other English sentence ...

Indirect object pronouns replace nouns, to avoid repeating the noun two sentences in a row. An indirect object pronoun is used in the place of the indirect object of a verb.

Indirect object pronouns close indirect object pronoun An indirect object pronoun replaces a noun that is the indirect object in a sentence, eg ‘I give an apple to the man’ becomes ‘I give ...