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

'We have people whom/who can testify this fact if necessary' Eddie: The main clause is: We have people. It is as complete a sentence as: We have dogs. The subordinate (dependent) clause is whom/who can testify this fact (if necessary)

Very informative and clear once again, thanks! I never realised there were rules around the contraction isn't! It is great to now know. One final question (I hope I am not over using your knowledge, haha) is in regards to this sentence.

either "learners of the English language," or "English language learners." Why is article the essential here? There is only one English language. e.g. I'm learning Chinese language these days. Is there any need to specify

Hi, Eddie, thanks for catching my "it's." I make that error about 60% of the time and catch it on re-read about 90% of the time. I think A. Stars answered you well on "That is he." There are two issues: the grammar issue,

Great, thanks a lot! I was wondering when you said, 'right again! the pronoun and it's object must make up...' In America (assuming this is where you are based) do they use apostrophes to show possession of these pronouns? (it's

I have always heard in conversation - that must be him / her on the phone. Of course we say:He is on the phone now. Grammatically, "that must be him" it is not strictly correct, since the case of a pronoun after "be" is

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' Correct. But I'm the only person I know personally who says it that way. Their

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

"Sandra lived with eight family members in a small apartment." You can't have a Direct Object within a prepositional phrase. Right? So that means "lived" is an intransitive verb ( cause they don't take Direct Objects),