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Congratulations on your hard work. - A. Edit. "Why is the article "the" essential here?"

Goodman, your sentences are active voice. Their construction is: subject + linking verb (to be), + a noun phrase (predicate nominative) . The passive voice, on the other hand, is formed thus: subject + verb to be + past participle of the lexical verb .

I wasn't using the " after-preposition rule " to support this construction. Use here is open to opinion. " She is taller than I " is presciptivist, whereas " she is taller than me " is the overwelming choice of the language's native speakers. The question is...

" 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...

Argumentum ad hominem! Go and read some Causer or Shakespeare. This construction is over 500 years old. Although many 19th century grammars shunned it, almost all 21st century models have embraced it once again. Just a typo. No need for a personal attack. What's the big deal anyway, it...

Your questions reveal the limitations of the traditional technical vocabulary for discussing grammatical structures! You can think of infinitives as a direct objects of the verb want. On the other hand, want takes a clause as its complement. I want (He helps us). But the...

See http://www.bartleby.com/64/C001/052.html Part of it states: than has been used as a preposition since the 1500s in sentences like John is taller than me. In these cases the pronoun is in the objective case where the rule would require the nominative. This construction appears...

If it is commonly used by native writers and speakers, that seems a good enough reason for calling it standard. Meaning is derived from consensus, after all. However there is a difference between how native speakers use their language, and how some people think they should use their language....

What is the word sucks in " Homework sucks " ? Is it a verb or an adjective? If it is a verb, what does homework suck? This brings up an excellent point, and a wonderful opportunity to discover the beautiful syntactic structure of the English language. The question at hand is " Does an English...

CalifJim wrote: If a student points to some construction and asks me if it's the subjunctive or not, I can't reply, 'No, it's a monkey!' Now there you are wrong! You are the teacher and can say any dang thing you want! In fact a smart retort like that might go a long way toward making your...