By Pronouns, Constructions

for I and YOU pronouns...in rules of using is and are....singular nouns/pronouns normally follow the linking verb in singular form. However with I and YOU, even if they appear to be one person. I and YOU are exceptions. the proper grammar for it is: "I" ---> the present tense for "were" is am....

rommie? Got a theory? hehe Sure thing. Consider the sentence: "I had him eating spinach". Does that make sense to you? It makes sense to me. It means (1) "he was eating spinach", and (2) "I caused this to happen". The phrase "him eating spinach" is a gerund - quite a complicated gerund as it...

O God, Who loves us and created your kingdom in the hearts of believers . . . I confess to being curious. This entire phrase is a noun-of-address, that is, a reference to a person in vocative case, and yet the phrase contains a reflexive pronoun. I didn't realise you could do that. I mean, if I...

Most people would say "you are a better man than me" or "she is a better swimmer than him" (not "than he"), so it seems to me the "rule" is fake. I'm intrigued by the way prescriptive grammarians make up "pseudo" rules to justify their ideas, such as: "and the word "am" is understood at the...

Hi, sorry for not trying to answer. I’ve just dumped reference material from the net. Hope it helps. "such" Pocket Fowler's Modern English Usage. Ed. Robert Allen. Oxford University such. 1. SUCH AS AN EMPHASIZER. How can the House express its indignant rejection of football hooliganism...

Hi, this is my first post to the group. I’ve just pasted information from Pocket Fowler's Modern English Usage. To be quite frank, I don’t really understand these definitions fully but I hope the information is useful to you. So, regarding the words 1 Than 2 that 1 Than is normally used to...