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."

...for some value of "the literature." See http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/001133.html#more, about halfway down in the discussion of the "Retart Zone". The entire article, both parts, is well worth reading.

It should be 'his'. Others will be able to tell you why. Still others will, doubtless, differ. I would have said "he" in that sentence. But "with his not being" would work for me. I'm looking forward to a

} }> I read this in a newspaper column recently: }> }> "Then he asked if Manchester would really want ... from me over the years, but my trusty old American Heritage Dictionary (I) brought it back for me: Yeah, exactly: an English

I read this in a newspaper column recently: "Then he asked if Manchester would really want to talk to him, him not being a big-shot writer or anything." Is the second "him" grammatically correct? Or should it read

In our last episode, (Email Removed), the lovely and talented halcombe broadcast on alt.usage.english: I write the sentence ‘More puzzling is the candidate's views on free trade.' I parse the subject of the sentence to be the gerund

"webmanoffesto" (Email Removed) wrote on 05 Dec 2003: In the sentence "The most interesting subject on the course list is *linguistics*." What is the word linguistics, indirect object? This sentence has three parts: a subject,