78 / PART ONE: THE BASICS There is often confusion in the use of the words: ‘I’ and ‘me’, ‘she’ and ‘her’, ‘he’ and ‘him’, ‘we’ and ‘us’, ‘they’ and ‘them’. ‘I’, ‘she’, ‘he’, ‘we’ and ‘they’ are personal pronouns and are usually the subject of the sentence. That means they are the instigators of the action in the sentence: ‘Me’, ‘her’, ‘him’, ‘us’ and ‘them’ are usually the objects of the sentence. That means that something is ‘done’ to them: The ball struck me. The prize was given to her. The tree fell on him. The audience applauded us. The teacher scolded them. Confusion often arises when there is a name as well as the pronoun. It is sometimes thought that ‘I’ sounds better than ‘me’ but it is actually incorrect: