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haoqide - look at Paco's list again - each line shows the nominative pronoun, possessive pronoun, and objective case pronoun for each person. The order in Paco's list is: first person singular -- nominative, possessive, objective second person singular -- n., p., o. third person singular,...

I just got my Swan back from a friend and here's what he has to say about these group words. -- Michael Swan; Practical English Usage: 503 1 groups of people In British English, singular words like family, team, government, which refer to groups of people, can be used with either...

Jazz, I don't understand what you mean "but if we discuss "B" and "C", they are not completed sentences, because as we know, these pronounses: (him, her, me, them, you, it, and us) should join before them "verb" as in case of possissive pronounses, that they take a noun after them." ...

http://pinker.wjh.harvard.edu/articles/media/1994_01_24_thenewrepublic.html Probably no "grammatical error" has received as much scorn as "misuse" of pronoun case inside conjunctions (phrases with two parts joined by is an object that requires object case, it does not mean that is an...

(Mod - I moved this from a learner's question as I felt they just needed a simple answer, which they received from others, rather than a debate on the issue. This is more appropriate for this section, so others interested in the theory of linguistics can continue if they wish.) Re: I, me ...

Hello Pastel I've awaited teachers' responses to your question but nobody has come. So I'd reply to you by myself. First of all I'd like to thank you for informing us the URL of the interesting grammar article. Please allow me to paste the article Multiple singulars don't make a plural by...

2. 'They' is becoming in writing the accepted 3rd person singular pronoun of unknown sex; it is already accepted in spoken English. A careful writer would avoid this, however, by casting the clause in the plural: 'when riders... panic before they crash'. ...

1. Because the two types of power are separately stated in their entirety (rather than phrased as 'braking and engine power'), the speaker seems to be considering them, and the listener seems to be urged to consider them, two different items-- a compound subject-- which would require are . If...

Hello Paco Yes, I think you're right about tenses in relation to the if-clause/main clause. Also about the confusion – a native speaker complained to me quite recently about the fact that people say 'if I were you', instead of 'if I was you' – he couldn't understand how it could be grammatical...

The anti-sexist faction has opened a can of worms in this area, May. The problem is that English is historically patriarchal (as are most of its Indo-European antecedents); often, therefore, there is no replacement for the traditional 'he' that is not awkward. Here are some guidelines: -...