In Nominative^x, Accusative^x, Pronouns^x

It's using a nominative pronoun where an accusative is required. A few decades ago it started to become fashionable to have children attend school without actually teaching them anything. The teachers corrected them, " Sarah and I ", not " Sarah and me " without actually...

Hi Tanit, Huevos recently made an impassioned plea for the accusative on a thread, "Nominative and Objective Pronouns - - - - - - Confusing!" Did you miss it? - A. Edit. Ah, I see you're referring only to the third person. Sorry. To my ear, there's no difference between first...

" Between " is a preposition . Pronouns that follow prepositions are always in the accusative case, not nominative. It's a rule, not a matter of opinion. Here are some examples that wrongly use the nominative. He wrote a book about she. The girl passed between he and I. The...

Amy, I hope I can take advantage of this post to ask you to go into more detail. Long ago, I was told in this forum that sentences like " You're taller than me " & " You're taller than I " (omitting "am") shouldn't be used. Shame on me ... I use the...

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...

for name in Old English e g how English was spoken 1000 years ago was nama In the accusative it was naman

Although I'm a native English speaker, I've often struggled to understand English grammar, especially its morphosyntatical elements. I've done some reading on nominative-accusative as well as ergative-absolutive cases and I just don't get it. Can someone who's better at linguistics explain...

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 pro noun after a linking verb only. Taking your "rule" literally, we must have They invited we." You might have known I was speaking...

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 pro noun 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...

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...