For my brother to feel, that he does not know the right term, must seem a real impediment. Hi frankie, thanks for joining us. Welcome to English Forums. Nix the comma after "feel." The feeling is bad. If this were your sentence, the

If perfection is what you're after, you should choose "She is smarter than he is" or the admittedly stiff "She is smarter than he." That's because in formal English, "than" is regarded as a conjunction and not

Hi, I think the underlined part is obviously a predicate nominative, i.e. it names the subject. Sue is a secretary . Then look at this and tell me if this noun clause could be a predicate nominative too, rather than a subject complement. Bob's

It is not correct, as asserted above, that extending the nominative from singular to plural automatically necessitates an equivalent change to a related genititive; it depends on the context. Is one talking of one person's life or a plurality

function as an object of a preposition or function as a complement, which a noun phrase can.. A that clause (where that is a complementizer) is most often used as a direct object, but it can also be used as a subject or as a predicate nominative (

1. it should be please give james and me (not I) it is because the pronoun me is used as an object. 2. number two is correct. it is because I issed as a subject (nominative case). 3. number is correct. 4. send the letter to sarah and me (not I).

Indeed, modern English syntax is all (well, mostly) about position, not inflection. In Russian, a "noun in the instrumental case" would not be positioned as a subject in a sentence - it's against the syntactical rules. So I suppose

Russian is a highly inflected language, having as I recall, 6 cases with different endings for singlar and plural.Adjectives are similarly inflected. Ah! OK. Then you probably recall the Russian "instrumental case". In English "with

Sorry, CJ, but my "grammar lingo" is limited to the Latin and Russian grammar (besides English) I studied eons ago in high school. I am certainly not a theorist in linguistics! Russian is a highly inflected language, having as I recall,

Folks: Let's take a look at it from this view. George - this is a person's name, a proper noun. George is happy. - George in nominative case. He gave George a book. - George is in dative case (indirect object ) This is George's book. -