Pronouns as Objects of Prepositions

Pronouns as 

Objects of a Preposition

A pronoun connecting to a preposition becomes the object of a preposition.

Remember these prepositions from the Nouns chapter?

Prepositions like nouns or pronouns after them!

As the chart shows him, them, and it are the pronouns used as the object of the preposition.

The following chart shows prepositions combined with singular or plural pronouns:

Discover how pronouns as Direct Objects and pronouns as Objects of a Preposition are the same in form.

One Object Pronoun-Two Uses

For example, when you see a sentence like, “Peter stands between us,” between is the preposition and “us” is the pronoun used as the object of the preposition. In “Tony loves us“, the pronoun “us” serves as a direct object pronoun. 

The small chart below will help you remember that us is an object pronoun. It can stand alone as a direct object pronoun or it combines with a preposition.

Object pronouns me, you, him, her, it, us, you, them stand alone as direct objects. Use the same pronoun for the Object of a Preposition. This time the chart below includes different prepositions with object pronouns to highlight the double use of Object Pronouns.

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