'This is I', though it remains grammatically correct, is seldom said or used. The American Heritage Dictionary says: Personal pronouns after forms of be: 'That must be him on the phone.' 'No, it must be he.' Traditional grammar requires the

Consulting four dictionaries, two of them American and two of ... One muscle is, as all the world knows, a biceps. And here you're creating "bicepses" from a Latin singular where the -s marks the nominative singular, by applying

Consulting four dictionaries, two of them American and two of them British, to be fair, none even mention this 'bicep' ... two biceps, one option is 'bicepses', M-W's Collegiate tells us. One muscle is, as all the world knows,

...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

Something odd about this: I can't think of any grammar ... determiners. If you had been discussing 'mine, yours, his, hers...' American Heritage Book of Usage , e.g.: : In Standard English, most possessive pronouns have different forms

If the genitive exists as a case in English, then it's the case assigned to a noun phrase by a ... to pronouns. And there's the rub - most of the time, possessive pronouns are not followed by the "-'s" marker. True, but what

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