Review: objective pronouns?  What are they?
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 01 12, 2013
The story was ok, I suppose, a quick read, but should have been quicker in my opinion.  I think it could have ended 40 pages sooner. Page after page of the same stuff. When the climax finally came, it was kind of silly and over in 5 or 6 pages. Still I did want to finish the book to see how it was concluded. I do have to say, this writer is over the top when it comes to overused expressions and the one that literally drove me nuts was "He caressed her cheek", "touching her cheek with the back of his hand", "wiping a tear from her cheek", "tears trickling down her cheek","gently kissed her pink cheek", "a smudge of dirt spotting her cheek"...oh my gosh, I was wishing she would slap his fingers for messing with her cheek throughout the book. Objective pronouns?  Well, I tend to figure a true author should know how to use them in her writing.  There are at least 15 or more glaring errors such as "It was given to Lyle and she", "It was a surprise to John and I", and numerous other errors of the same kind. How can this simple gramatical error liberally pepper a book by an author? This is the first of Cristy James'books I have read, so perhaps the others in this series have improved in these categories but something tells me they may not be. It is my intention to email Ms. James to ask about these items that bother me so much. If this type of thing doesn't bother you, you may love the read. I still make mistakes and have to stop and check myself...often correct myself in the middle of a sentence. Sorry 'bout that. Actually, I make lots of other mistakes, too! :o)I am adding a paragraph (no...two) in answer to the review reader to explain an 'objective pronoun'. Pronouns are words that take the place of a noun in a sentence. For example, John becomes HE or him, The dog becomes IT, the girls become THEY or them.  When the pronoun becomes an object of a verb, it is objective. When the pronoun is the subject of the sentence, it is subjective.  Ruth gave me dinner...objective pronoun is ME because ME was the object of the verb 'gave'.  If 'I' gave Ruth dinner, I would use HER as the objective pronoun. You would never say, Ruth gave ME dinner. Nor would you say ME gave Ruth dinner. But many people DO say incorrectly...Ruth gave Don and I dinner. That is wrong because you would be using I as an objective pronoun when it is a subjective pronoun.  If the pronoun follows another object it must also be objective. *Ruth gave I dinner...is incorrect. The problem is that when the pronoun follows another noun, it sounds correct to use the wrong pronoun because the first noun buffers the choice of pronouns. I believe it was around 5 grade when Miss Long taught me this. If I use the wrong pronoun in a sentence points were taken off and losing points was not in my game plan.Your choice of which pronoun to use is even more confusing considering many people who should be using the correct pronoun do not...TV stars, TV newsmen, ministers in church, government officials, newspaper columnists and reporters and AUTHORS all misuse these pronouns and all because "It sounds right" but sounding right is not the same thing as being right. I know most of you couldn't care less and if that is how you like it, so what? Speak as you please figuring it just is not that important. But those mentioned above should know...their writing classes and speaking classes in college would do what Miss Long did to me if I got it wrong.The book I reviewed had many noticible errors such as this in it. Sorry that Miss Long caused me to be such a stickler.