I am a middle school student studying for a test on identifying nominative, predicate nominatives, indirect objects, and direct objects. I am completely confused. I have no clue how to identify these within a sentance, nor how to use the right

1. Can you tell me who her sister is? (Her sister is Mary)Mary is object. I supposed that it should be whom. I don't know why it should be whom. It shouldn't be "whom." This is a being verb ("is"), and it doesn't

There (subject - actually it is a place marker for the subject, which is "follow-up") may be (verb) a follow up (noun, object - not object, but subject. Some would call this a predicate nominative) later on (adverb phrase -yes) of a

GG: OMG! You take me back to my Latin and Russian classes in high school - the cases and declinations of nouns and adjectives: nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, ablative, vocative, instrumental ... and a different ending for each one in

If something is a nominative phrase, it serves as the subject of the clause. Thanks, GG I would like to understand what it means, see some examples "The bad boy blushed." "The bad boy" is the nominative phrase in this sentence.

I'm still poking around here. The "absolute / nominative" guy had a second example: "Him watching TV he forgot to call his mom." I would have said, "He - - - ." As I think about it, a usage is coming into my

"Nominative" is the adjectival form of "noun." It doesn't get used very much on this site. I think I've seen MrP use it one time. It's always something of a tossup as to whether a "noun phrase"

Okay here goes.. A predicate nominative is a noun that renames the subject, and can be swapped with the subject and still retain the sentence's same meaning. Example: Clifford is my dog. The word 'dog' would be a predicate nominative,

I guess that's an oversimplification. A group, men, women, or mixed, is often addressed as "guys." "You guys have been terrific!" The expletive "man" is used in speaking to a woman: "Man, I'm really

It's I who has to apologize; and it's we who have to apologize. Explanation: "It is a singular noun, therefore "It's" is correct even when "we" is the predicate nominative because the verb agrees with the