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It should be The three members at this point are expected to be John Doe Jane Doe and I because it s a predicate nominative which requires the subject form of a pronoun The two examples given by the original poster both require I because in the first sentence myself is in the position of a...

I want that you clean up your room this instant It would not surprise me to learn that it was possible in some NAmE Englishes Some Romance language speaking immigrants may speak it Quote from Everything2 The Subjunctive Mood of English After verbs which formerly used the subjunctive mood we...

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 and or or What teenager has not been corrected for saying Me and Jennifer are going to...

I m not a teacher and oh my goodness now I know why English teachers are worth their salt I just can t explain this in a simple way I thought this question would be easy to answer but it s not easy at all Just because a word is commonly used and short doesn t guarantee that it s easy to explain I...

Excellent question Wushu Yes horse and retard are both nouns And in this case each is a predicate nominative a noun or pronoun that follows a linking verb and refers to the subject Linking verbs can be followed by nouns or adjectives e g retard or retarded The other interesting thing about...

Another explanation All three are personal pronouns I is the subjective form used when the speaker is the subject of the sentence as in I am a good swimmer or when the speaker is a predicate nominative as in The best swimmer is I Use me as a direct object He kicked me as an indirect object He...