Choose the correct form of the pronoun in parentheses: Carlos and (him, he) will join us soon.
Neither of them sound right.
I honestly don't understand this... Could someone please explain it to me?
Forget Carlos, and the sentence would be
He will join us soon.
Adding in Carlos does not change the fact that it is the subject, so does not use the objective form (him).
"neither" means "not either" and is singular. So,
Neither of them sounds right.
"them" is plural, but is not the subject of the sentence. Without the prepositional phrase, the sentence is
Neither sounds right.
This is for a study guide btw
Thank you!
Of course, I'd be happy to explain! In this sentence, we need to determine whether to use the pronoun "him" or "he" to refer to Carlos.
To decide, let's break down the sentence: "Carlos and (him, he) will join us soon."
To find the correct pronoun, we need to determine whether Carlos is the subject (performing the action) or the object (receiving the action) in the sentence.
Here, Carlos is joined by someone else, so he is the subject of the sentence. In this case, we would use the pronoun "he" because it is in the subject form.
The correct form of the sentence would be: "Carlos and he will join us soon."