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*Whom was given the book? The syntactical subject of passives usually take the direct object, which is in an accusative case, changes it into the nominative case. In the sentence, " the book" is not the subject but the direct object. The construction doesn't have an overt subject (null...

People sometimes refer to the CGEL on this site. Conveniently, some sample chapters from this publication are now online at CGEL sample chapters The preliminary chapter includes the odd lapse of logic. This is one of the first. Apologies for the fairly lengthy quotation: Another kind of...

Hello everyone, I like to do sentence analyses, so if you could sometimes send us some exercises on the matter they will be very welcome. A/ Here is MY analysis: 1) She is so pretty a girl. a) parts of speech: she = nominative personal pronoun is = fintie verb so = adverb of...

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...

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...

I came across this sentence in a text I was issued for a seminar: "Give the package to (whoever, whomever) comes to the door." The correct response was listed as "whomever." The rationale for this was: substitute "he" or "him," as in "give the package to him." Therefore, in this sentence,...

" I sent her a postcard. " ( ' her ' is the pronoun in dative case ) because " I sent her " is not a complete sentence that you need an object ' a postcard ' to form a complete sentence. dative = the form of a noun, a pronoun or an adjective when it is the indirect object of a verb or is...

Who is nominative, or subject. "Who kicked the cat?" Who is subject. Whom can be pretty much any other case, or object. "Whom did you kick?" Whom is direct object. But whom isn't really used anymore nowadays. "Who did you kick?" is well accepted.

I think you are right because since we have the verb "to be" we call it a nominative complement by which we mean that "it" is the same person as the subject. However, it is still a complement. Used with another verb other than the verb "to be", it would be called direct object.

Hello In this sentence: Meeting him for the first time , Charile was slightly nervous. I understand that there are two caluses and that the subject is Charile the verb is "was" nervous is prediacate nominative and that "slightly" modifies nervous. In the other Clause, Meeting him for the...