In Nominative^x, Infinitive clauses^x

Hello Everyone Thank you for the comments. The phrase <rather than someone do it> is new also to me. I found this in the grammar textbook 'A Comunicative Grammar of English' published from Longman and authored by Geoffrey Leech and Jan Svartvik. Svartvik, though he is a Swede, is one of...

Paco2004 wrote: Hello Some infinitive clauses are difficult to be grouped into "nominative use", "adjectival use" or "adverbial use". Take "to go home" in "I told him to go home", for example. This "to go home" is the target to which "I" directed "him" by the action "tell". If one...

Hello Some infinitive clauses are difficult to be grouped into "nominative use", "adjectival use" or "adverbial use". Take "to go home" in "I told him to go home", for example. This "to go home" is the target to which "I" directed "him" by the action "tell". If one paraphrases this sentence,...

"I want him to be me". The subject of the infinitive clause and the subject complement of the infinitive clause should both take the same case -- objective in this sentence. Also, in modern English, the subject complement is most often in the objective case even in the main clause: "Who is...

I am a coach for a local high school team that competes in mathematics, logic, and English. We came across this during one of our tournaments. Which one is the correct usage of the pronoun? I want him to be me. I want him to be I. We know that him is in the objective case that is the...