(compare "my inside leg measurement is 30 inches" not " are 30 inches") That's not the same. Verb number follows the speaker's concept of the subject, not the predicate nominative.

The objective case is used in the post-verbal position, even if the verb is to be . Only the most formal contexts would require the nominative case. The reflexive can also be used. I am me. This is me. It's me. I've got to be me. I have

hi there, I've been on this phonological problem for about 3 days. All I got are a big question mark and a terrible headache... PLZ help: I have three sets of data from Latin and i m asked to give underlying forms and write rules to account

Please tell me why this sentence is correct: Alcohol and tobacco are harmful to whoever consumes them. I thought that if the pronoun is a direct object then the objective case is used. However, it is appropriate to use the nominative case when the

XD: I've just been thinking about the differences, and trying to come to some guidelines. Here it goes... Those can introduce a relative clause; them cannot. Those can be used in nominative case; them cannot. Examples: I like those who tell

I was always taught that the complement of the infinitive is always nominative unless that infinitive also as a a subject, in which case it switches to the objective. Strange thing to be taught. The complement of the infinitive is always in the

Anon: I never heard of such a rule. The rules for object case are the same for finite and non-finite verbs. Copulative verbs are followed by predicate nominative, and transitive verbs by the object case. When the infinitive follows a catenative

Hi, I was always taught that the complement of the infinitive is always nominative unless that infinitive also as a a subject, in which case it switches to the objective. For example: "I was believed to be he." "He" is

In these examples, only the infinitive seems correct to me. The subjunctive must have a subject in nominative (subject) case: What do you advise that they do?

Have you ever seen the movie "Peggy Sue Got Married"? Peggy Sue was a middle-aged woman who passes out at her high school reunion and wakes up 25 years in the past, when she's a high school student again - but with all her adult