By Conversations, Predicates

I would say "She was I", but Kooyeen delights in pointing out that I'm in a 1% minority. It comes down to, what do you mean by "correct"? - and what do you mean by "allowed"? - and what "register" would you like to represent? I like to think of the song lyric from the musical, The Man From...

(Mr M forgot to log in again!-- MM) It is a matter of natural sentence flow and stress for meaning. Let's write it like a prose sentence: I think that I shall never see a poem as lovely as a tree. Spoken in conversation, sentences carry several levels of stress, not just stressed and...

Hello Tallulah The grammatical subject of a sentence isn't necessarily the same as the "subject matter". In this sentence, for instance – 1. My girlfriend ran off with the milkman. – the grammatical subject of the sentence is "my girlfriend"; the predicate is "ran off with the milkman"; and...

The so-called object pronouns are actually acceptable in the "predicate nominative" position according to many modern grammarians. Some say that it has been only the tendency of English grammarians throughout the centuries to create rules for English in imitation Latin grammar that has led...

Sorry I have taken so long; I had to go away for a while. I am the guest who started this thread. Roro, I was reading your answers on the Montague Grammar thread and I think that person is asking basically the same thing as I. To clarify my question: I learned how to do some basic propositional...

The correct versions are "It's he", "It's she", "It's we" and "It's I." Whenever the verb is a form of "to be" (be, am, is, are, was, were, been), the predicate is subjective. That's standard English. Most speakers of the language, however, would use the incorrect version in conversation. ...