In Nominative^x, Expressions^x

I wouldn't say that short absolute expressions were rare in spoken English. How about?: Dinner being ready, I went downstairs. The car being out of action, I had to walk.

Actually, "ye / you / your / yours" were the 2nd person plural forms (also formal) in Middle English. The singular was "thou / thee / thy /thine" The formal "you" became informal and replaced the singular. The nominative "ye" also disappeared. Now,...

" 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...

So it's always "between you and me" no matter where this expression sits in a sentence? Wow, this is a new revelation. I have heard "between you and I" so often. Thanks Avangi. Would someone comfirm this? Avangi, I hope you don't take this question as being...

Language is constantly changing - especially English. Grammarians disagree constantly, as Huevos has said. Consider the expression, "Between you and me. . . . " Both pronouns function as object of the preposition. Little kids sometimes say, "Me and him went to the movies."...

Kooyeen delights in pointing out that I'm in a 1% minority. LOL. That does sound like Kooyeen, all right! But we must allow him his freedom of expression! what do you mean by "correct"? - and what do you mean by "allowed"? - and what "register" would you like to represent? The lines are...

Hi, Anon, I should probably keep out of this. I don't think they used the expression "complement" when I was in school. The type of action the verb describes often limits its function. Transitive verbs take objects. "She hit him." Intransitive verbs don't. "She matured." Some verbs...

The so-called object pronouns are actually acceptable in the "predicate nominative" position according to many modern grammarians. Some say that it has been only the tendency of English grammarians throughout the centuries to create rules for English in imitation Latin grammar that has led to...

Hello guys I know we had a conclusion on the subject but I'd like to put some additional information. The article below is a description in a book (written in Japanese) by Late Dr Toshio Nakao, a scholar who taught the history of the English language in several colleges in Japan and in Great...