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## UNIT FOURTEEN Direct and indirect object pronouns (3: stressed forms) 

1 Direct and indirect object pronouns do not only have the unstressed (or weak) forms that we saw in Units 7, 10 and 13: they also have stressed (or strong) forms: 

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* As usual, the pronoun Lei (third person singular feminine) and the pronoun Loro (third person plural) are used for the formal form. 

2 The stressed forms of direct object and indirect object pronouns are used to give emphasis to the pronoun or to stress a contrast; unlike unstressed forms, they normally come after the verb, except when used with the verbs piacere , sembrare , servire , bastare , parere  and mancare  (see Unit 11). Stressed forms always refer to people, not objects: 

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