GG: OMG! You take me back to my Latin and Russian classes in high school - the cases and declinations of nouns and adjectives: nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, ablative, vocative, instrumental ... and a different ending for each one in

It's I who has to apologize; and it's we who have to apologize. Explanation: "It is a singular noun, therefore "It's" is correct even when "we" is the predicate nominative because the verb agrees with the

I understand that fewer denotes a reduction in the number of nouns. Fewer hands, fewer baskets etc. Whilst 'less' refers to an amount/effect of some thing. Less daunting, less water etc. However would it be correct to say "50%

It is not correct, as asserted above, that extending the nominative from singular to plural automatically necessitates an equivalent change to a related genititive; it depends on the context. Is one talking of one person's life or a plurality

Russian is a highly inflected language, having as I recall, 6 cases with different endings for singlar and plural.Adjectives are similarly inflected. Ah! OK. Then you probably recall the Russian "instrumental case". In English "with

Sorry, CJ, but my "grammar lingo" is limited to the Latin and Russian grammar (besides English) I studied eons ago in high school. I am certainly not a theorist in linguistics! Russian is a highly inflected language, having as I recall,

When forming a question with the "Who" as the subject, generally use "is." Who is coming to the party? Who is in that crowd of people? If you have a predicate nominative in the plural , then you can use

A few points might be worth considering: 1. Most native English speakers have no idea whether they are using appositive nominative phrases, or adverbial clauses of time. 2. If there were no rules, no conventions about how words fit together, there

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

You make errors even as you discuss errors! 1. You link singular "someone" with plural "they"; 2. Childrens' is wrong; 3. "than me" should be "than I"! Scary. George Argumentum ad hominem! Go and read