Jaleel.nt, in the first instance, we deal with a phenomenon that is conventionally known as a passive gerund ; the whole clause with being... can be substituted with a noun phrase, eg, ...this award . Therefore, we refer to being... as a nominal

which is correct.. with my daughter and me providing support with my daughter and I providing support I think it is number 2 - nominative takes priority over objective? My friend and I disagree.

Have you ever seen the movie "Peggy Sue Got Married"? Peggy Sue was a middle-aged woman who passes out at her high school reunion and wakes up 25 years in the past, when she's a high school student again - but with all her adult

"Nominative" is the adjectival form of "noun." It doesn't get used very much on this site. I think I've seen MrP use it one time. It's always something of a tossup as to whether a "noun phrase"

But maybe I should kick off the discussion (and display ... or person - after all infinitive menas "unbound", doesn't it? Hmmm... close. I'd say: not inflected for person and number. Viz "Corcule, dic mi a te me amari"

If the genitive exists as a case in English, then ... time, possessive pronouns are not followed by the "-'s" marker. True, but what does that have to do with being in the genitive? Those languages that have a various cases modify

I think one thing that emerges clearly from all of ... and my wife are" are applying any rule . I think you are wrong about "me and my wife are". People who say this are applying a ... that a nominative pronoun are used only when

I think you are wrong about "me and my wife are". People who say this are applying a ... that a nominative pronoun are used only when the pronoun stands by itself as the subject of a finite predicate. I agree, and again offer French for

I think one thing that emerges clearly from all of these back- and-forth comments is that neither the folk who say "for my wife and I" nor the folk who say "me and my wife are" are applying any rule . I think you are wrong

The crux here is that English is not no language is a mere procession of vagaries. We do not pick and choose ... regular feature of the tongue, by divination anew at every need: we apply rule, and rule in language is grammar. Of "my wife and