I have always heard in conversation - that must be him / her on the phone. Of course we say:He is on the phone now. Grammatically, "that must be him" it is not strictly correct, since the case of a pronoun after "be" is

He is a Mr. Godfrey Norton, of the Inner Temple. (Sir A. Conan Doyle. Sherlock Holmes: A Scandal in Bohemia) In older literature, the pronoun "one" or the indefinite article was used before a person's name when the character was

The explanation given above is a good one. Did you read it? To simply express your opinion in everyday conversation, I suggest you do not use "According to me." It's fine for other pronouns and other nouns. According to Mike,

Hi, If a teacher hits a student, may get sued. In casual conversation, which pronoun is used? Hard to say. eg Primary school teachers are usually women. 'They' is often used. Clive

Your instinct is right--the phrase refers to "last year's figure " but the word "figure" is understood and so dropped. So grammatically the spelling should be year's. However, it has become common especially in

It's very common in sentences of this sort to drop everything after the pronoun. So "John is taller than I" is the acceptable wording. In fact, in conversation many, probably most, people would say, "John is taller than

Is the last sentence grammatically correct? Yes. can 'no one' substitue for the noun phrase' the copy shop' ?? Not really. Where would you make that substitution? No one means nobody at all; it doesn't refer to the copy

I have underlined some problem areas: The Woman Within the Doll The Baltimore Sun wrote that back in 1879, “A Doll's House” by Henrik Ibsen “shocked and offended people wherever was played,” and that the dramatist assured it was

Clive -- I agree that "everyone" is often treated as plural in casual conversation, and I might well say "everyone does their best" myself. But technically, shouldn't it be "everyone does his job and everyone does his

When I saw him, Tom was drunk. (I would never say this. It is not right to introduce a pronoun before the noun) Hoa Thai is correct -- if this is the first mention of Tom. However, if the other people in the conversation are already discussing