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Thank you We sneak in She she vs lim her
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eyelash shmoop when mr jay beeber of dickinson north dakota
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picks up the phone it's usually to say no this
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is not him unfortunately mr bieber is wrong while he's
- 00:18
right about not being in ghetto pop star but his
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grammar is more incorrect than the beeb's believe that he's
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an actual musicians i mean nice hair though he she
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him and her are all pronouns or words that take
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the place of a noun But just like bieber the
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north dakota plumber and bieber the canadian pop sensation there's
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a big difference between he she and him her see
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when someone does call asking for mr jay beeber plumbing
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expert mr bieber should respond this is he not This
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is him What makes this Is he different Why don't
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we say i love he or i'll call he well
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it all depends on the verb Technically when the pronoun
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is the object of a sentence it receives the action
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Then it should be him or her in the sentence
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I love him Love is the action and he received
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all the love and since he's the recipient of all
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this love the pronoun must be him but verbs like
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love and call are different from verbs like is to
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love is very active to be is a state of
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existence that's Why verbs like to be our called linking
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verbs they don't really act so much as just exists
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by the way there are a few more linking birds
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out there but they don't really apply to our current
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topic so we'll stick with b anyway according to traditional
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grammar ah linking verbs will be followed by the subject
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pronounce he or she so even though it sounds totally
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weird it was he j b fan girls were calling
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late at night It was him is wrong just like
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the j b fangirl suspicion that their hero would take
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up residence in rural north dakota So when asking anything
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from who stole the cookie from the cookie jar to
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who aided in the demise of modern music be the
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answer should always be it was he and maybe it 00:02:12.53 --> [endTime] was she too where's clapton when you need him
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