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Giving negative response to 'Do you mind' questions means that you are okay with the question be asked. You can answer this question with No, I don't, No, go ahead. TAKE AWAY:- "If you have no enemies, you have no character. Taking a stand always creates opposition." Paul Newman

Giving positive response to 'Do You Mind' questions means that you have a problem with the question asked and you do not agree with it. TAKE AWAY:- "What could be better than to hold out your hand to people less fortunate than you are?" PAUL Newman

Do you mind if + VERB is used to ask someone if they object to something you are asking: Do you mind if I excuse myself? Do you mind if I ask your mum? Also we don't need to add another "YOU" to "Do you mind" questions like this: Do you mind "you" sitting elsewhere? Do you mind if "you" sit elsewhere? TAKE AWAY:- "If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. It's the hard that makes it great." ––– Tom Hanks.

HAPPY 60TH INDEPENDENCE DAY NIGERIA. 'Do You Mind...' means 'do you have any problem with or does it bother you.' We ask questions with 'Do You Mind...' when: 1. we want to ask someone to do something for us: Do you mind shutting the door? Do you mind helping me in the kitchen? 2. we want to ask permission to do something: Do you mind me shutting the door? 3. we want to ask permission for a third person to do something for us: Do you mind Stella helping me out in the kitchen? TAKE AWAY:- "Someday. That's a dangerous word. It's just a code for 'never.'" ––– Tom Cruise

Rule 5 is the last rule of the subjective and objective case rules. Rule 5 says that, "when citing instances, the introduces we use determines the case. If the introducer is LIKE, the pronoun that will be used after it will be the objective case but if SUCH AS is the introducer then the pronoun that will be used after it will be subjective case of the personal pronoun. Examples:- Beautiful ladies like us (not we) are smart. Responsible men such as he (not him) should be encouraged. TAKE AWAY:- Weak people take revenge. Strong people forgive. Intelligent people ignore. –––Albert Einstein.

Rule 4 says that,"when a question is asked with a verb of performance(main verb), we reply with a subject pronoun but when the verb is not a performance verb, we reply with an object pronoun. Who is knocking at the door? It is I. Who is at the door? It is me. TAKE AWAY:- Patience is the strength of the weak. Impatience is the weakness of the strong. –––Immanuel Kant

This episode talks about the third rule of the subjective and objective case rules which says, "When comparing, we use the subjective case of the personal pronouns at the object position." Arsenal seems stronger than they(are). My sister cooks better than I (cook). "Are" and "Cook", which are in brackets, in the two sentences have been omitted and this omission is called Ellipisis. TAKE AWAY: "Be a free thinker and don't accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in." –––Aristotle.

RULE 102: The second rule of the Subjective and Onjective Case Rules says,"When a prepostion is used in a sentence, the object case of a personal pronoun should be used after it." The apple was given to me. Please, share this money among Tade, me and them. TAKE AWAY: "If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult since we think them happier than they are." –––Bason de Montesquieu

This episode is about the first rule of subjective objective case rules which states that: When a third or second person, is used with the pronoun 'I/me', the second or third person should come first before 'I.' This rule is called THE RULE OF SELFLESSNESS. EXAMPLES: Jide and I are brothers. You and I have been called for the job interview. The man gave Jide and me some money. TAKE AWAY: What is thinkable, is also possible.

This episode talks about pronoun and the personal pronoun. The pronoun is used to replace the a noun in order to avoid unnecessary repetition of the noun and boredom while reading. The personal pronoun is a type of pronoun that points to people directly. They are the: first person( I/ME, WE/US), second person(YOU), and third person(HE/HIM, SHE/HER, IT/IT, THEY/THEM). TAKEAWAY: "A joyful life is an individual creation that can not be copied from a recipe." ––– Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi