Editing Object pronoun (section)

{{short description|Personal pronoun that is used typically as a grammatical object}}
In [[linguistics]], an '''object pronoun''' is a [[personal pronoun]] that is used typically as a [[grammatical object]]: the direct or indirect object of a verb, or the object of a preposition. Object pronouns contrast with [[subject pronoun]]s. Object pronouns in English take the ''[[Oblique case|objective case]]'', sometimes called the ''oblique case'' or ''object case''.<ref>[[Randolph Quirk]], [[Sidney Greenbaum]], [[Geoffrey Leech]], and Jan Svartvik, ''A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language'' (London: Longman, 1985), p. 337.</ref>
For example, the English object pronoun ''me'' is found in "They see '''me'''" (direct object), "He's giving '''me''' my book" (indirect object), and "Sit with '''me'''" (object of a preposition); this contrasts with the subject pronoun in "'''I''' see them," "'''I''' am getting my book," and "'''I''' am sitting here."