By Grammar, Pronouns

Re: grammar help!

'They' is commonly used here. This is the so-called 'Singular They', but I read somewhere that this is a disputed usage. I have finally located the site where I have seen it. It is a blog post titled Concord failures/noun-pronoun disagreements?‏ Best regards.

Re: Ending a grammar argument

Hello Branwen319, welcome to English Forums! (Are there really 318 other Branwens here?)No comma is needed; "your" is a possessive pronoun, and "no" is an indefinite determiner (i.e. they're not adjectives). Two or more qualitative adjectives may be separated by a comma,...

Re: GRAMMAR IN RHYME

A Grammar Rhyme by David B. Tower and Benjamin F. Tweed A noun's the name of anything; As, school or garden, hoop or swing. Adjectives tell the kind of noun; As, great, small, pretty, white, or brown. Three of these words we often see, Called articles - a, an, and the. Instead...

Re: relative pronoun for both human and animal

New2grammar, 1) The man and the dog that were hit by a car were slightly injured.2) The man and the dog hit by a car were slightly injured. The first makes it clear that a car hit not merely the dog but the man, but the second doesn't.

Re: Pronoun Cases

No its ok... thanks Grammar Geekif some confusion occured i would ask again. Now i need practice and more practice!

Re: They,you and he are good students.(?)

May I bother you with one last question about this? In "You, he and I are classmates.", the first person pronoun "I" is the last one to mention, but in "We, you and they are tall.", the first person pronoun "we" become the first one. If the word order is...

Re: They,you and he are good students.(?)

Thank you, Clive. Actually the reason I ask this question is because when I read my grammar book, it says when we are trying to use multiple personal pronouns, we should follow a set order: singular: You, he and I are classmates. (second person, third person, first person) plural: We, you...

Re: It's him/he that's in the wrong. (Which pronoun should I use?)

.Your grammar book may well say that 'It's me that did it' is OK-- so any pronoun in the same case would enjoy the same right: It's him/her/them that did it.However, this is labeled an informal usage, so careful grammar requires you to consider the pronoun primarily as the subject...

It's him/he that's in the wrong. (Which pronoun should I use?)

I know from my grammar book that we can say: It's me that's in the wrong. But I wonder if the same logic could apply to the following case? It's him/he that's in the wrong. I know "he" would be OK, but what about "him"? Is it OK too? Thank you for your...

Re: Question about the phrase "I have things to do"

Hello, Twinkletoes.No, that's not what I'm saying. "things to do" is the direct object of "have", the main verb of the sentence. "To do" would be a clause (a non-finite one) even if "things" weren't there or if it had some other type of...