Personally I just use what feels correct (for me) in each individual case. Same here. And nine times out of ten I make the agreement with the noun phrase immediately after "none of". I haven't introspected enough to be sure whether

CJ, what's your opinion on the question? Personally I just use what feels correct (for me) in each individual case. For example if this were followed by a linking verb and a predicate nominative I would pick the number of the verb based on the

XD: I've just been thinking about the differences, and trying to come to some guidelines. Here it goes... Those can introduce a relative clause; them cannot. Those can be used in nominative case; them cannot. Examples: I like those who tell

GG: OMG! You take me back to my Latin and Russian classes in high school - the cases and declinations of nouns and adjectives: nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, ablative, vocative, instrumental ... and a different ending for each one in

"Nominative" is the adjectival form of "noun." It doesn't get used very much on this site. I think I've seen MrP use it one time. It's always something of a tossup as to whether a "noun phrase"

Okay here goes.. A predicate nominative is a noun that renames the subject, and can be swapped with the subject and still retain the sentence's same meaning. Example: Clifford is my dog. The word 'dog' would be a predicate nominative,

The head of the phrase is the central element of the phrase, not the first word in the phrase, but I assume you know this. I see it is as an adjective phrase in that it is headed by an adjective 'seven.' Functionally, however, I see it as

My brother lives in India . The verb "to live" is intransitive and does not take an object. "I sleep in my bed ." These are prepositional phrases acting adverbially, modifying the verb and telling where. The verb "to

For my brother to feel, that he does not know the right term, must seem a real impediment. Hi frankie, thanks for joining us. Welcome to English Forums. Nix the comma after "feel." The feeling is bad. If this were your sentence, the

function as an object of a preposition or function as a complement, which a noun phrase can.. A that clause (where that is a complementizer) is most often used as a direct object, but it can also be used as a subject or as a predicate nominative (