Note 33 — VI. PRONOUNS

Some grammarians make a sort of bugbear of the position of the pronouns. This is due in part, at least, to the somewhat different usages in Portugal and Brazil. In Portugal, for example, they would say: espero que me faça o favor, I hope you can do me the favor, and não se lembrou do recado, he did not remember the message; while in Brazil they might use these identical expressions or they might say espero que faça me o favor and não lembrou-se do recado. However, aside from the simple rules here given, the position of the pronoun is a matter of phonetics rather than of rules of grammar.