| I am having a hard time distinguishing predicate nominatives, predicate adjectives, and object of preposition. I need a couple good examples and good ways to determine if it is a Predicate nominative, predicate adjective, or object of prepoistion. Thanks, ... | |
| I've read through many of the previous posts on this subject (such as this one). It is like reading a foreign language seeing "object of the preposition" and "nominative vs. objective case." Would you please indulge a native speaker who was taught ... | |
| 1) This was an example on an internet site: 'That must be him on the phone' The site suggested that it should read, 'that must be he on the phone' Their justification was this: the nominative form of the pronoun following the verb be Now, I ... | |
| I decided to vote for whoever called me first. I=subject decided=main verb to vote for whoever=prep phrase called=verb me=object At first glimpse it may seem like whoever should be in the objective case; this is because it may seem like it is the object ... | |
| I thought it was a "conjunction", is it not? Here is the text, a text that shows "noun infinitives" used in different ways, in which "but" is catagorized as a preposition: The noun infinitive can be a subject (To eat is fun.); a direct object (I ... | |
| HELP ME UNDESTAND THIS PLZ Identify each italicized word as DO(direct object), IO(indirect object, OC(objective complement), AP(appositive), PN(predicate nominative), S(subject), or OP(object of preposition). Scurvy, a vitamin C deficiency, makes people ... | |
| Hello! What's up? Hope every1's fine. Now, the reason I posted... My cruel, evil (but okay) teacher gave me some homework and I can't figure out one problem: 1- In the sentence: "The charge for the repair work on the car was very low.", the ... | |
| Hello friends, Which is the correct pronoun case for the following: "The credit goes to him who wrote the script" OR "The credit goes to he who who wrote the script" ? As I see it, it can be argued either way. A) "him" is object of the preposition ... | |
| 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 ... | |
| Hello. I'm in 8th grade and am homeschooled. In my English class, I have recently been learning about diagraming subjects, appositives, direct objects, object of prepostitions, and predicate nominatives. It would be easy, if I was still ... | |
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