'This is I', though it remains grammatically correct, is seldom said or used. The American Heritage Dictionary says: Personal pronouns after forms of be: 'That must be him on the phone.' 'No, it must be he.' Traditional grammar requires the

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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

I was always taught that the complement of the infinitive is always nominative unless that infinitive also as a a subject, in which case it switches to the objective. Strange thing to be taught. The complement of the infinitive is always in the

Have you ever seen the movie "Peggy Sue Got Married"? Peggy Sue was a middle-aged woman who passes out at her high school reunion and wakes up 25 years in the past, when she's a high school student again - but with all her adult

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

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."

If perfection is what you're after, you should choose "She is smarter than he is" or the admittedly stiff "She is smarter than he." That's because in formal English, "than" is regarded as a conjunction and not

Uzytkownik "izzy" (Email Removed) napisal w wiadomosci There is a pervasive tendency for the same semantically unrelated concepts to be joined as (near) homonyms across languages. So, ... not be phonetically or etymologically related),

Irish (Gaelic) has 5 cases - nominative, vocative, accusative, genitive and dative -, You cannot be serious. In modern standard Irish there are three cases: nominative, vocative, and genitive. Dative can hardly be said to be a living form anymore,