In Nominative^x, Clauses^x, Verbs^x

MrPedantic wrote What are we to make of the fact that adult native speakers often self prescriptivise Example Oh hello MrP MissQ was just telling Randy and me Randy and I about L1 acquisition MrP I read your question wrong oops Um I think that does not resemble self prescriptivism at all at...

According to the X bar theory the subject in the VP projection of D structure gets the nominative case when it moves to the IP projection in S structure It means the nominative case in a predicate clause appears only before a finite verb for usual verbs It would be the reason why people feel It s...

Green89 wrote I came across these sentences though my teacher did explain it but i didn t quite understand it 1 I couldn t deny__plausible excuses a him having made c that he has done b he has made d his having made Correct the answer is D of course But how about C i wonder any problem with that...

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...

Hello Mr P Indeed there are even authorities for Whom are you I believe the OED will back me up on this one OED doesn t say about Whom are you but it says about nominative whom errorneously used in embedded clauses whom 3 Used ungrammatically for the nominative who esp as predicate in a dependent...

Monika asked in http www englishforums com ShowPost aspx PostID 70995 Could you please tell me when to use me or I I received the following message from an Australian native speaker This is exciting not only for Sue but for you and I too I thought it was me in this case I too of course am really...

I enjoy your analyses too Casi You take threads in intriguing directions The concept of a digitized Santa has a certain charm 2 1167 X 2 1167 Y Santa is Scrooge Returning to words but retaining mathematical briefly if I may perhaps at this moment on MathForums com another Casi and another...

Hello MrP and Casi It s hot hot hot I mean our discussion Well I think I got more from this thread than I had bargained for I thank you all participants for that Now our discussion seems to have taken a new turn moving from the issue of dangling to the nature of ing in after ing I dare join you...

Hi Happy This area is a very contentious one so it is not surprising that you find different pronouncements within and between grammar books Here is my opinion on the examples you present 1 Who did it Not I The pronoun stands in parallel to the subject who and is a shortened form of I didn t do...

And who says all British magazines speak English correctly My way of thinking about this one would be that we use the nominative case I he etc when the subordinate clause refers to its subject sorry I don t know how to say this in grammatically correct terms as in It is I who have to apologize...