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That sentence is fine. "She" is the subject of the subordinate clause. The antecedent of "she" is "the owner". Also it's obvious whom is correct because it follows a preposition (always accusative, never nominative).

Than ought to be used as either a demonstrative pronoun or a conjunction. In the sentence 'Jessica is prettier than me', it is being used as a conjunction. This conjunction usually occurs after a comparative adjective or adverb. In this case, it occurs after better, which is a comparative...

"As brave as he is": here the second "as" introduces a clause and is therefore a conjunction. The subject of the clause is "he".If we miss out "is", then it's "as brave as him", because "as", introducing only a pronoun, has the function of a preposition, requiring an accusative form. However,...

Hello Jim, The noun after the verb is to be in nominative case and not in accusative. "I think you mean this to be true in the case of a pronoun after a linking verb only. Taking your "rule" literally, we must have They invited we." You might have known I was speaking specifically...

Hi CJThe reason some 'Latinists' may object to it's me is the fact that the verb to be is intransitive and thus can't take an object. Me, however, is generally known as the object form of I. They invited we is a different matter because invite is a transitive verb and can take an object. Don't...

The noun after the verb is to be in nominative case and not in accusative. I think you mean this to be true in the case of a pronoun after a linking verb only. Taking your "rule" literally, we must have They invited we. because the pronoun is after the verb, the conditions under which...

.... -0- ok, let's put it this way: GB is nothing more than a module in the generative grammar, to be put on a par with such other modules of the theory as X', Case theory or the Theta Theory, although it has been quite incorrectly treated as though it were the whole of the Grammar (Chomsky,...

Hello Swiss Jake, Are you a German-speaking Swiss? If yes, then this should help a bit: 'Whom' is used in the accusative case, which is very obvious in German inflections but only seen in English prounouns, e.g. him, her, us, and whom. However, where in German there are two distinctive...

Then what about these sentences, pacoWhat do you mean by "Then what about these sentences, paco?" Do you want to say you don’t agree to what I wrote previously? I wrote just what CGEL and my another grammar book are saying. If you don't like to believe them, I don’t mind it. What I would like...

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...