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Apronoun is a word used instead of a noun. The most important aspect of the pronoun to note, for practical purposes, is that the only words in the English language which have retained different forms depending on whether they are the subject or the object of a sentence are all pronouns. As a basic guideline the subject of a sentence is the person doing the main action. The object is the person at the receiving end of this action. The difference between the two leads to one of the classic confusions of the English language – the difference in usage between ‘I’ (subject pronoun) and ‘me’ (object pronoun).

When trying to decide, ask yourself if you would use ‘me’ in the same sentence on its own. ‘John and me went to the party’ doesn’t sound too bad but ‘me went to the party’ is wrong.