Maria is my friend. Maria is the subject. my friend is the predicate nominative. My faith and my morning coffee are my salvation. My faith and my morning coffee is the subject. my salvation is the predicate nominative. The verb

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

As to this, I'd like to put my two cents. When English retained cases explicitly, the subject noun and the complement noun linked by a linking verb were both in nominative cases. So, "I am the king ". If we change "the king" into a pronoun, it

??I want that you clean up your room this instant! It would not surprise me to learn that it was possible in some NAmE Englishes. Some Romance language speaking immigrants may speak it. Quote from Everything2 : The Subjunctive Mood