Him vs Hem - What's the difference?
him | hem |
# With dative effect or as an indirect object.
#* '1897' (578 m)'', (Bram Stoker), ''Dracula :
# Following a preposition.
#* '1813' (553 m)'', (Jane Austen), ''Pride and Prejudice :
# With accusative effect or as a direct object.
#* '1853' (565 m)'', (Charles Dickens), ''Bleak House :
* '1526' (465 m)'', (William Tyndale), trans. ''Bible , Acts XII:
* '1765' (538 m)'',
With nominative effect: he, especially as a predicate after (be), or following a preposition.
* 'c. 1616' (493 m)'', (William Shakespeare), ''Macbeth , First Folio 1623, V.10:
* '2003' (611 m)'', Claire Cozens, ''The Guardian , 11 Jun 2003:
An utterance or sound of the voice like "hem", often indicative of hesitation or doubt, sometimes used to call attention.
* Spectator
To make the sound expressed by the word hem ; to hesitate in speaking.
* Shakespeare
(sewing) The border of an article of clothing doubled back and stitched together to finish the edge and prevent it from fraying.
A rim or margin of something.
* Shakespeare
In sheet metal design, a rim or edge folded back on itself to create a smooth edge and to increase strength or rigidity.
(in sewing) To make a hem.
(transitive): To put hem on an article of clothing, to edge or put a border on something.
(transitive): To surround something or someone in a confining way.
As pronouns the difference between him and hem
is that him is A masculine pronoun; he as a grammatical object.hem is obsolete form of 'em|lang=en.As an interjection hem is
used to fill in the gap of a pause with a vocalized sound.As a noun hem is
an utterance or sound of the voice like "hem", often indicative of hesitation or doubt, sometimes used to call attention.As a verb hem is
to make the sound expressed by the word hem; to hesitate in speaking.him
English
(wikipedia him)Pronoun
- ‘I promise,’ he said as I gave him the papers.
- She was in no humour for conversation with anyone but himself; and to him she had hardly courage to speak.
- ‘He's got it buttoned in his breast. I saw him put it there.’
- Apon a daye apoynted, the kynge arayed hym' in royall apparell, and set ' hym in his seate, and made an oracion unto them.
- Though poor the peasant’s hut, his feasts though small,
- He sees his little lot the lot of all;
- [...]
- But calm, and bred in ignorance and toil,
- Each wish contracting, fits him to the soil.
- Before my body, I throw my warlike Shield: Lay on Macduffe, And damn'd be him , that first cries hold, enough.
- Lowe quit the West Wing last year amid rumours that he was unhappy that his co-stars earned more than him .
See also
(English personal pronouns)See also
* he * his * her * themStatistics
*hem
English
Etymology 1
A sound uttered in imitation of clearing the throat (onomatopoeia)See also
* ahem * hawNoun
(en noun)- his morning hems
Verb
(hemm)- Hem , and stroke thy beard.
Derived terms
* hem and hawEtymology 2
From Middle English hem, hemm, in turn from Old English hemm and related to Middle High German .Noun
(en noun)- hem of the sea