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Hi, Eddie, thanks for catching my "it's." I make that error about 60% of the time and catch it on re-read about 90% of the time. I think A. Stars answered you well on "That is he." There are two issues: the grammar issue, and the usage issue. Re the grammar, there are...

I have always heard in conversation - that must be him / her on the phone. Of course we say:He is on the phone now. Grammatically, "that must be him" it is not strictly correct, since the case of a pronoun after "be" is nominative. However, in this case (must be ***), we...

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."...

Do you mean opinion different from one person to the next, or "one grammar book" to the next? If it's personal opinion, it's almost impossible to have everyone agree on all rules considering that languages are forever evolving one way or the other. But isn't there a...

This problem of the subject complement is an ongoing debate. It caused because nouns in English don't differenciate between subjective and objective. Only English pronouns do that. In everyday speech and writing the pronouns used in this instance are almost always objective case and if...

Find out if your book and your teacher expect the highly formal versions (now old-fashioned, but still encouraged in some grammar books), or the less formal, more modern versions. Once you know that you can answer "correctly" more often! Old version: Use the nominative pronouns for the...

Yes! If you go to Jamaica, you'll find out you should say Me like him! Although "I like him" should be ok in high or middle registers.

I wish my parents were more like we/us. The trip will be a good experience for people like you and I/me. I am thinking "we" and "I" are correct. I can't remember the grammar rule but I'm thinking that the first sentence could be restated with the ending "we are" and in the second sentence,...

Although I'm a native English speaker, I've often struggled to understand English grammar, especially its morphosyntatical elements. I've done some reading on nominative-accusative as well as ergative-absolutive cases and I just don't get it. Can someone who's better at linguistics explain...

I didn't know when this rule banning "between you and I" emerged. Here it is: ----------- between you and I . “All debts are cleared between you and I,” writes Antonio to Bassanio in Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice. Did Shakespeare commit a blunder, writing I where the objective...