In Nominative^x

Goodman, your sentences are active voice. Their construction is: subject + linking verb (to be), + a noun phrase (predicate nominative). The passive voice, on the other hand, is formed thus: subject + verb to be + past participle of the lexical verb.

That sentence is fine. "She" is the subject of the subordinate clause. The antecedent of "she" is "the owner". Also it's obvious whom is correct because it follows a preposition (always accusative, never nominative).

It's using a nominative pronoun where an accusative is required. A few decades ago it started to become fashionable to have children attend school without actually teaching them anything. The teachers corrected them, "Sarah and I", not "Sarah and me" without actually...

The correct form is "It won't be he who gets fired" since he is used as a predicate nominative, therefore requiring the nominative case.

Grammatical rule, convention or politeness, it makes little difference to me. It has been my understanding for more than 60 years in the U.S. that if other people are involved, we place I after the others in the nominative and me after the others in the objective. I do know, however, that our...

Thank you all. YL, I already knew this. That's why I wrote in my first post "the accusative form seems to be used more, but some insist that the nominative one is preferable.".So, Philip and Avangi favour the nominative, and CJ the accusative. I see there's no agreement even...

Hey, Avangi. How about our forming an organization: NPFNS (nominative pronouns for nominative situations)? Not sure we'd find a lot of members, but if we charged less than $2 per year for membership, we might get a few takers from these forums.

Hi Tanit, Huevos recently made an impassioned plea for the accusative on a thread, "Nominative and Objective Pronouns - - - - - - Confusing!" Did you miss it? - A.Edit. Ah, I see you're referring only to the third person. Sorry. To my ear, there's no difference between...

Hi,I'm fine with these: If I were you ..., If I were my sister ..., If I were John ...But how about "he", "she", "they"? Would you recommend that I use the nominative case If I were , I would ...I have obviously done some research, but...

Not if you are from my generation, or my daughter's (19 British native) or my grandchildren's. My parents both went to private school and they were always harping on about this but I've never succumbed to it. Here, "She likes John more than me" can mean both "She likes...