1. Can you tell me who her sister is? (Her sister is Mary)Mary is object. I supposed that it should be whom. I don't know why it should be whom. It shouldn't be "whom." This is a being verb ("is"), and it doesn't

I guess that's an oversimplification. A group, men, women, or mixed, is often addressed as "guys." "You guys have been terrific!" The expletive "man" is used in speaking to a woman: "Man, I'm really

Hi, berkeley, thanks for joining us. Welcome to English Forums. I understand the usage of "you and I." E.g. "Andrea and I will eat tonight." I also understand that you can say "They yelled at Andrea and me."

It is not correct, as asserted above, that extending the nominative from singular to plural automatically necessitates an equivalent change to a related genititive; it depends on the context. Is one talking of one person's life or a plurality

onetitfemme schrieb: Well, yes it might be. Even though I am more of a tech monkey I am a very well read ... "someone" or "you may enter", when you mean "anyone" ... .. This is kind of what I am looking for You are

Does one say: (i) Even if it WERE true... or (ii) Even it WAS true... Either is acceptable. Traditionally, a supposition following "if" used the subjunctive form "were", but "was" is now more commonly used. Also, Does

What do you mean "either is acceptable in the objective case"? Only whom is in the objective case. Who is nominative, same as "he, she, we, they". Whom is accusative, ame as "him, her, us, them". So use who when you

True, but what does that have to do with being ... in several different ways, depending on the nominative noun endings. So, the thing is that the "-'s" suffix does not modify the noun, in the way we expect cases to ... "the

If the genitive exists as a case in English, then ... time, possessive pronouns are not followed by the "-'s" marker. True, but what does that have to do with being in the genitive? Those languages that have a various cases modify

I think one thing that emerges clearly from all of ... and my wife are" are applying any rule . I think you are wrong about "me and my wife are". People who say this are applying a ... that a nominative pronoun are used only when