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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://www.englishforums.com/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Search results for 'tag:Nominative' matching tag 'Nominative'</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/search/pro.htm?q=tag%3aNominative</link><description>Search results for 'tag:Nominative' matching tag 'Nominative'</description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>XMOD (Build: 3616.28671)</generator><item><title>Re: Predicate Nominative?</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/PredicateNominative/lxpnq/post.htm#992155</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:16:37 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:992155</guid><dc:creator>mrpedantic</dc:creator><description>Hello Anon, 
  
 "Are" is indeed the linking verb; but I would call "the consent form, sign-in sheet, list of locations and my card" the subject. "Attached are" is thus an inverted predicate; and "attached" itself I would call an adjectival subject complement. 
  
 It wouldn't surprise me if there were other interpretations, though. 
  
 Best wishes, 
  
 MrP</description></item><item><title>Re: English</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/English/ljrzj/post.htm#963628</link><pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:17:37 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:963628</guid><dc:creator>califjim</dc:creator><description>subject,direct object,indirect object,predicate nominative,objcet of a preposition,direct address,appositive,or an abjective complement.
 These terms describe the functions that words take when used in sentences . They are not properties of single words. Your question is therefore incoherent. It cannot be answered.    You are asking something like this:  Is the number 548 greater or less?    CJ</description></item><item><title>Re: Appositive phrase?</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/AppositivePhrase/lwwvd/post.htm#960444</link><pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 06:32:56 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:960444</guid><dc:creator>avangi</dc:creator><description>Geez, I think so. (I&amp;#39;d be more inclined to call it a parenthetical expression without parentheses.)   I&amp;#39;m not really an expert on these. I don&amp;#39;t usually see them at the end, but I can&amp;#39;t say why not.   They usually represent the thing they stand for in a nominal way (rather than adjectival), so that gramatically, one could replace the other. I don&amp;#39;t think this works in your example.   I think I&amp;#39;ve read that the appositive must be a noun or a noun phrase. I think that&amp;#39;s what my dictionary says, in fact.   I like your dogs, big brutes.  &amp;quot;Brutes&amp;quot; is a noun; &amp;quot;dogs&amp;quot; is a noun.</description></item><item><title>Re: Usage of 'what'</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/UsageOfWhat/lwzhk/post.htm#959673</link><pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 08:48:57 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:959673</guid><dc:creator>cool breeze</dc:creator><description>In my terminology what is a relative pronoun which is inclusive of the antecedent in your sentence.  A leading figure in the Scottish enlightenment,  Adam Smith&amp;#39;s two major books are to democratic capitalism what Marx&amp;#39;s Das Kapital is to socialism.  I consider this sentence ungrammatical. Adam Smith , who is clearly the intended leading figure, is in the genitive. Two major books cannot be the figure since books are not people, but that&amp;#39;s what the sentence implies as two major books is in the nominative case - or the common case as many call it.   Alternative E makes the original sentence grammatical since Adam Smith isn&amp;#39;t in the genitive. The use of similar in alternative D sounds unidiomatic to my ear, and, furthermore,...</description></item><item><title>Re: Uses of being</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/UsesOfBeing/ldjkp/post.htm#936289</link><pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2009 07:18:16 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:936289</guid><dc:creator>gleb_chebrikoff</dc:creator><description>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 -ing participle clause . In the first sentence, it functions as a prepositional complement of as,  which requires either a noun phrase or an -ing clause, as we can see here .   In the other example, there is poor word order. The first part (the one before a comma) should be reconstructed as:    His wife being dead , ...   This -ing clause is called absolute - it is not explicitly bound to the main clause syntactically. The normal word order is preserved, however, so the subject must come first....</description></item><item><title>Re: English</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/English/kpxpb/post.htm#914540</link><pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 12:54:08 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:914540</guid><dc:creator>mister micawber</dc:creator><description>'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 nominative form of the pronoun following the verb be: 'It is I' (not 'me'); 'That must be they' (not 'them'), and so forth. Nearly everyone finds this rule difficult to follow. Even if everyone could follow it, in informal contexts the nominative pronoun often sounds pedantic and even ridiculous, especially when the verb is contracted. Who would ever say 'It's we'? But constructions like 'It is me' have been condemned in the classroom and in writing handbooks for so long that there seems little...</description></item><item><title>Re: Predicate Nominative</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/PredicateNominative/dzqnn/post.htm#903704</link><pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 03:41:33 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:903704</guid><dc:creator>mister micawber</dc:creator><description>It is underlined:   Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches are a good snack .  My name is Mister Micawber .</description></item><item><title>Re: Predicate Nominative</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/PredicateNominative/dzqnn/post.htm#903666</link><pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 02:58:04 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:903666</guid><dc:creator>anonymous</dc:creator><description>can you give me an examples of predicate nominative?  ??</description></item><item><title>Re: Predicate nominative or direct object?</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/PredicateNominativeDirectObject/knxxd/post.htm#903469</link><pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 23:49:08 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:903469</guid><dc:creator>califjim</dc:creator><description>When we arrived at the dock, the captain  told Harry and us where to park our cars .   subject  verb   direct object   There is no predicate nominative in the sentence.   CJ</description></item><item><title>Re: Predicate nominative or direct object?</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/PredicateNominativeDirectObject/knxxd/post.htm#903426</link><pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 23:17:39 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:903426</guid><dc:creator>coloraday</dc:creator><description>I think subject is the captain and the predicate is told harry and us where to park our cars and the direct object is Harry and us .</description></item><item><title>Predicate nominative or direct object?</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/PredicateNominativeDirectObject/knxxd/post.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 22:23:28 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:903366</guid><dc:creator>anonymous</dc:creator><description>What is the subject, verb, and predicate nominative or direct object or this sentence?   When we arrived at the dock the captain told Harry and (we,us) where to park our cars.</description></item><item><title>Re: Nominative or objective case?</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/NominativeOrObjectiveCase/kndvk/post.htm#900099</link><pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2009 15:14:55 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:900099</guid><dc:creator>anonymous</dc:creator><description>It would be preferable to say &amp;quot;with my daughter and me providing support.&amp;quot; Rule: objective form after a preposition. (P.S. Don&amp;#39;t be confused if you hear native speakers use &amp;quot;I.&amp;quot; )</description></item><item><title>Nominative or objective case?</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/NominativeOrObjectiveCase/kndvk/post.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2009 14:12:14 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:900024</guid><dc:creator>anonymous</dc:creator><description>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.</description></item><item><title>Re: Same man that I was</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/SameManThatIWas/2/kkhxg/Post.htm#888255</link><pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2009 17:40:15 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:888255</guid><dc:creator>califjim</dc:creator><description>I understand that it should be &amp;quot;It was he&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;It is I&amp;quot; grammatically, but I thought everybody favoured &amp;#39;him&amp;#39; or &amp;#39;me&amp;#39; in those places. This can not be extrapolated to &amp;#39;whom&amp;#39; then? Your analysis is &amp;quot;right on the money&amp;quot;!!!    In the normal declarative order, it&amp;#39;s typically &amp;quot;It&amp;#39;s me&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;It&amp;#39;s us&amp;quot;, etc., (unless we&amp;#39;re trying to be extremely formal and use &amp;quot;It is I&amp;quot;), which leads us to think &amp;quot;It&amp;#39;s &amp;#39;whom&amp;#39;&amp;quot; is the underlying form of a question &amp;quot;Whom is it?&amp;quot; But in fact, especially in this linking-verb case, the &amp;#39;rule&amp;#39; (if you can call it that) is that the objective forms ( me, us, whom, ... ) should be...</description></item><item><title>Re: Nominative pronoun</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/NominativePronoun/khldm/post.htm#880558</link><pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 04:15:51 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:880558</guid><dc:creator>grammar geek</dc:creator><description>http://www.englishforums.com/English/NominativePronounsObjective/bmpb/post.htm</description></item><item><title>Re: Nominative pronoun</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/NominativePronoun/khldm/post.htm#880543</link><pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 04:06:57 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:880543</guid><dc:creator>anonymous</dc:creator><description>can you please give more examples of nominative pronouns?</description></item><item><title>Re: Nominative pronoun</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/NominativePronoun/khldm/post.htm#872845</link><pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 14:17:55 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:872845</guid><dc:creator>clive</dc:creator><description>Hi, 
 A pronoun that can be the subject of a sentence, 
 eg   He cooked dinner but not  Him cooked dinner. 
  
 Clive</description></item><item><title>Nominative pronoun</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/NominativePronoun/khldm/post.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 14:10:18 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:872843</guid><dc:creator>anonymous</dc:creator><description>what is an nominative pronoun?pls help ny teacher is giving us a quiz for tommorow to have plus 5 in conduct</description></item><item><title>Re: Day to day / state of the art</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/DayToDayStateOfTheArt/khkxq/post.htm#872764</link><pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 10:03:18 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:872764</guid><dc:creator>mister micawber</dc:creator><description>Hyphenate when they are attributive:  a day-to-day existence, a state-of-the-art cellphone . Do not do so when they are predicative or nominative:  We existed day to day. The state of the art is lagging behind its own technology.</description></item><item><title>Re: Indefinite pronoun</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/IndefinitePronoun/khbbp/post.htm#870073</link><pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 00:56:27 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:870073</guid><dc:creator>califjim</dc:creator><description>Personally I just use what feels correct (for me) in each individual case. Same here. And nine times out of ten I make the agreement with the noun phrase immediately after &amp;quot;none of&amp;quot;. I haven&amp;#39;t introspected enough to be sure whether the difference between a predicate nominative or predicate adjective influences my choice. I don&amp;#39;t think that it affects my choice, but maybe it does unconsciously.   CJ</description></item><item><title>Re: Indefinite pronoun</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/IndefinitePronoun/khbbp/post.htm#870059</link><pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 00:40:51 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:870059</guid><dc:creator>huevos</dc:creator><description>CJ, what&amp;#39;s your opinion on the question? Personally I just use what feels correct (for me) in each individual case. For example if this were followed by a linking verb and a predicate nominative I would pick the number of the verb based on the predicate nominative. With a predicate adjective I would probably only use singular, not certain of this though.   None of them is an Englishman. None of them are Englishmen. None of them is English.</description></item><item><title>It is I!</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/ItIsI/kgknz/post.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 00:30:45 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:867804</guid><dc:creator>grammar geek</dc:creator><description>Someone linked to this from another forum and I liked it so much I wanted to share with you: 
  http://www.ucsc.edu/currents/01-02/04-15/rules.html  
  
 This is the bit I particularly liked, referring to the &amp;quot;rule&amp;quot; about always using the nominative after the verb &amp;quot;to be&amp;quot;: 
  My advice would be this: If someone knocks at your door, and you say &amp;quot;Who&amp;#39;s there?&amp;quot; and what you hear in response is &amp;quot;It is I,&amp;quot; don&amp;#39;t let them in.   It&amp;#39;s no one you want to know.</description></item><item><title>Re: Object, noun clause, complement</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/ObjectNounClauseComplement/kzxmv/post.htm#864052</link><pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2009 03:02:48 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:864052</guid><dc:creator>grammar geek</dc:creator><description>I agree with B about &amp;quot;He is a teacher.&amp;quot; In that case, teacher is the predicate nominative. It&amp;#39;s not an object.   I agree with you that &amp;quot;that he loved me&amp;quot; serves as a noun phrase.</description></item><item><title>Re: Nominative Nouns</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/NominativeNouns/jpmbl/post.htm#829042</link><pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 21:50:18 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:829042</guid><dc:creator>mister micawber</dc:creator><description>A nominate noun is one used as a subject.</description></item><item><title>Re: Nominative Nouns</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/NominativeNouns/jpmbl/post.htm#828927</link><pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 17:04:50 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:828927</guid><dc:creator>califjim</dc:creator><description>nominative nouns Like Philip, I don&amp;#39;t think there is such a thing as nominative nouns.   CJ</description></item><item><title>Re: Nominative Nouns</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/NominativeNouns/jpmbl/post.htm#828907</link><pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 15:44:43 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:828907</guid><dc:creator>philip</dc:creator><description>Give it a try yourself first.  Post them here and we will check your work. 
 
  And give me a definition of &amp;quot;nominative noun&amp;quot; - that&amp;#39;s a new one for me.</description></item><item><title>Re: Nominative Nouns</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/NominativeNouns/jpmbl/post.htm#828884</link><pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 14:28:50 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:828884</guid><dc:creator>mister micawber</dc:creator><description>Give it a try yourself first.  Post them here and we will check your work.</description></item><item><title>Nominative Nouns</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/NominativeNouns/jpmbl/post.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 14:25:20 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:828880</guid><dc:creator>anonymous</dc:creator><description>Give me 10 example of sentence using nominative nouns.</description></item><item><title>Re: 'younger then she' or 'younger than her'</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/YoungerYoungerHer/jphrg/post.htm#828119</link><pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 00:14:35 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:828119</guid><dc:creator>anonymous</dc:creator><description>The short answer to your question is &amp;quot;yes&amp;quot;. 
 The test for subject or object pronouns is simple: Does the sentence make sense using the full verb form? If so, then the pronoun is nominative. In your example what you really mean is &amp;quot;younger than she IS &amp;quot; - so, of course, you must use &amp;quot;she&amp;quot; (you can&amp;#39;t say &amp;quot;younger than her is&amp;quot; 
 Hope this is clear. 
 Simon Stanley</description></item><item><title>'younger then she' or 'younger than her'</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/YoungerYoungerHer/jphrg/post.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2009 09:14:37 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:827413</guid><dc:creator>anonymous</dc:creator><description>Hi! Is there a rule which says that in comperatives you put pronouns in the nominative form?Thanx</description></item><item><title>Re: Use was or were?</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/UseWasOrWere/jpvhw/post.htm#826804</link><pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2009 18:05:32 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:826804</guid><dc:creator>huevos</dc:creator><description>(compare &amp;quot;my inside leg measurement is 30 inches&amp;quot; not &amp;quot; are 30 inches&amp;quot;) That&amp;#39;s not the same. Verb number follows the speaker&amp;#39;s concept of the subject, not the predicate nominative.</description></item><item><title>Re: I am me or I am I?</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/IAmMeOrIAmI/jnqvh/post.htm#822654</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 17:15:12 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:822654</guid><dc:creator>califjim</dc:creator><description>The objective case is used in the post-verbal position, even if the verb is to be . Only the most formal contexts would require the nominative case.  The reflexive can also be used.   I am me. This is me. It&amp;#39;s me.  I&amp;#39;ve got to be me. I have to be myself. He isn&amp;#39;t himself today.   CJ</description></item><item><title>A terrible phonological Anylsis (Latin alternations)..</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/ATerriblePhonologicalAnylsisLatin-Alternations/jxbww/post.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 13:21:01 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:820904</guid><dc:creator>mythical lady</dc:creator><description>hi there,   I&amp;#39;ve been on this phonological problem for about 3 days. All I got are a big question mark and a terrible headache... PLZ help:   I have three sets of data from Latin and i m asked to give underlying forms and write rules to account for alternations.   Nominative       Gentive 1. murmur        murmuris    fu:r            fu:ris   far            farris    os             ossis It seems to me that the genitive maker is -is and there&amp;#39;s no nominative maker, and latin doent allow consonant clusters in the coda, so there is a deletion rule assuming that /farr/ and /oss/ are the underlying representations   2. o:s   o:rs   flo:s   flo:ris   mu:s   mu:ris There&amp;#</description></item><item><title>Who vs whom</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/WhoVsWhom/jmvrn/post.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 19:43:25 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:811814</guid><dc:creator>babycarrots</dc:creator><description>Please tell me why this sentence is correct: Alcohol and tobacco are harmful to whoever consumes them. I thought that if the pronoun is a direct object then the objective case is used. However, it is appropriate to use the nominative case when the pronoun is the subject of a subordinate clause, right? Please explain.</description></item><item><title>Re: When and when not to use "them" and "it"</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/When/jkbgn/post.htm#801261</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 02:21:26 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:801261</guid><dc:creator>alpheccastars</dc:creator><description>XD: I&amp;#39;ve just been thinking about the differences, and trying to come to some guidelines. Here it goes...   Those can introduce a relative clause; them cannot. Those can be used in nominative case; them cannot.   Examples:  I like those who tell the truth. (Introduce a clause)  These cherries are good, but those are better. (nominative)   As an object, &amp;quot;them&amp;quot; can stand alone, those often cannot, and must be used in its adjective or relative pronoun form.   I sent them a letter. (OK)  I sent those a letter. (wrong) I sent those students a letter. (OK) I sent those who answered my survey a letter. (OK)   I sent a letter to them. (OK)  I sent a letter to those. (wrong.) I sent a letter to those who were on the list.(OK)   I...</description></item><item><title>Re: Infinitive Complements</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/InfinitiveComplements/jzxch/post.htm#780398</link><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 18:46:26 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:780398</guid><dc:creator>califjim</dc:creator><description>I was always taught that the complement of the infinitive is always nominative unless that infinitive also as a a subject, in which case it switches to the objective. Strange thing to be taught.   The complement of the infinitive is always in the objective case.    I want to hit him . She asked me to pay them .  We need him to notify us soon.   The only exception is when to be occurs in very formal, old-fashioned, or hypercorrect language. It is so awkward in normal modern English that it is almost always avoided by rephrasing the sentence.    Joseph thought me to be he .  (Normally, to be him / to be the one (who ...) / to be the man who ... )  Louise was reported to be she .  (Normally, to be her / to be the one ... / ... )  Karen...</description></item><item><title>Re: Infinitive Complements</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/InfinitiveComplements/jzxch/post.htm#780368</link><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 18:22:47 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:780368</guid><dc:creator>alpheccastars</dc:creator><description>Anon: I never heard of such a rule.  The rules for object case are the same for finite and non-finite verbs. Copulative verbs are followed by predicate nominative, and transitive verbs by the object case.   When the infinitive follows a catenative verb, the pronoun (object of the first verb) is used in object case.    I asked him to go with me.  I asked her to help me .    I was angry at Jim. I asked Bobby to hit him .</description></item><item><title>Infinitive Complements</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/InfinitiveComplements/jzxch/post.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 17:57:44 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:780341</guid><dc:creator>anonymous</dc:creator><description>Hi, 
  
 I was always taught that the complement of the infinitive is always nominative unless that infinitive also as a a subject, in which case it switches to the objective. For example: &amp;quot;I was believed to be he.&amp;quot; &amp;quot;He&amp;quot; is the complement of the infinitive, and since there is no subject for that infinitive it stays nominative. On the other hand, if the example were &amp;quot;I thought him to be him&amp;quot; (bad sentence, I know), the complement becomes objective because the infinitive has a subject.  I run into an issue if I&amp;#39;m using the infintive of an action verb. For example, would it be &amp;quot;I want to hit him&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;I want to hit he&amp;quot;? According to the way I was taught, it would be &amp;quot;I want to hit...</description></item><item><title>Re: Subjunctive or not</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/SubjunctiveOrNot/jzlpd/post.htm#779702</link><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 00:27:01 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:779702</guid><dc:creator>alpheccastars</dc:creator><description>In these examples, only the infinitive seems correct to me. The subjunctive must have a subject in nominative (subject) case:    What do you advise that they do?</description></item><item><title>Re: Identifying nominative and objective pronouns</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/IdentifyingNominativeObjective-Pronouns/jcvrx/post.htm#762742</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 01:43:45 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:762742</guid><dc:creator>grammar geek</dc:creator><description>Have you ever seen the movie &amp;quot;Peggy Sue Got Married&amp;quot;? 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&amp;#39;s a high school student again - but with all her adult memories. She has an algebra test and she hands it in completely blank. Her teacher asks why she would do such a thing, and she says something like &amp;quot;I know from personal experience that once I leave this classroom, none of this material will ever be of use to again.&amp;quot; 
  
 I think you should try that approach with your English teacher. 
  
 However, if you&amp;#39;re not really game to try that approach, here is some help. I hope. 
  
 You know what the subject of sentence is, right? The...</description></item><item><title>Identifying nominative and objective pronouns</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/IdentifyingNominativeObjective-Pronouns/jcvrx/post.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 01:10:45 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:762685</guid><dc:creator>anonymous</dc:creator><description>I am a middle school student studying for a test on identifying nominative, predicate nominatives, indirect objects, and direct objects. I am completely confused. I have no clue how to identify these within a sentance, nor how to use the right one. Please help.</description></item><item><title>Re: Sentences</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/Sentences/jbgbw/post.htm#758410</link><pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2009 14:36:44 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:758410</guid><dc:creator>avangi</dc:creator><description>1.  Can you tell me who her sister is?   (Her sister is Mary)Mary is object. I supposed that it should be whom. I don&amp;#39;t know why it should be whom.      It shouldn&amp;#39;t be &amp;quot;whom.&amp;quot; This is a being verb (&amp;quot;is&amp;quot;), and it doesn&amp;#39;t take an object. &amp;quot;Her sister is who.&amp;quot; &amp;quot;Who&amp;quot; is nominatiive case. The sentence is correct as is.   When there&amp;#39;s a clause involved, if the pronoun is subject of the clause, it must be in nominative case (who).   Can you tell me whom they arrested? &amp;quot;Arrested&amp;quot; is a transitive verb and takes an object. (they arrested whom) &amp;quot;Whom&amp;quot; is the direct object of the verb.    2.  He does not know where your uncle will go.   (Your uncle will go to shopping.) So I...</description></item><item><title>Re: Grammar</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/Grammar/jrjzc/post.htm#754405</link><pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 15:55:37 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:754405</guid><dc:creator>alpheccastars</dc:creator><description>There (subject - actually it is a place marker for the subject, which is &amp;quot;follow-up&amp;quot;) may be (verb) a follow up (noun, object - not object, but subject. Some would call this a predicate nominative) later on (adverb phrase -yes) of a peacekeeping nature (adjectival phrase - yes, modifies &amp;quot;follow-up&amp;quot;).</description></item><item><title>Re: What's a nominative phrase, please?</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/WhatsNominativePhrase/jrzwg/post.htm#753485</link><pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 02:05:47 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:753485</guid><dc:creator>alpheccastars</dc:creator><description>GG: OMG! You take me back to my Latin and Russian classes in high school - the cases and declinations of nouns and adjectives: nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, ablative, vocative, instrumental ... and a different ending for each one in singular and plural, and a different ending for the adjectives, too. Figuring out what modified what was pretty simple!   Nominative can also be the predicate noun as well as the subject (at least for Latin).</description></item><item><title>Re: What's a nominative phrase, please?</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/WhatsNominativePhrase/jrzwg/post.htm#753484</link><pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 02:04:52 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:753484</guid><dc:creator>avangi</dc:creator><description>If something is a nominative phrase, it serves as the subject of the clause.  Thanks, GG     I would like to understand what it means, see some examples  &amp;quot;The bad boy blushed.&amp;quot;  &amp;quot;The bad boy&amp;quot; is the nominative phrase in this sentence.</description></item><item><title>Re: What's a nominative phrase, please?</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/WhatsNominativePhrase/jrzwg/post.htm#753394</link><pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 00:38:26 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:753394</guid><dc:creator>avangi</dc:creator><description>I&amp;#39;m still poking around here.   The &amp;quot;absolute / nominative&amp;quot; guy had a second example: &amp;quot;Him watching TV he forgot to call his mom.&amp;quot; I would have said, &amp;quot;He - - - .&amp;quot;   As I think about it, a usage is coming into my memory which may be subjunctive, I&amp;#39;m not sure: &amp;quot;  He being lazy, I&amp;#39;d rather give the job to someone else  .&amp;quot; (prior context assumed)  I&amp;#39;m not sure if this is the same thing, or if this has any bearing on the usage you&amp;#39;re asking about.</description></item><item><title>Re: What's a nominative phrase, please?</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/WhatsNominativePhrase/jrzwg/post.htm#753291</link><pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 23:24:15 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:753291</guid><dc:creator>avangi</dc:creator><description>&amp;quot;Nominative&amp;quot; is the adjectival form of &amp;quot;noun.&amp;quot; It doesn&amp;#39;t get used very much on this site. I think I&amp;#39;ve seen MrP use it one time.
 
 
  
 It&amp;#39;s always something of a tossup as to whether a &amp;quot;noun phrase&amp;quot; is so-called because it functions as a noun or because it begins with a noun. It&amp;#39;s often both. 
  
 So do we say &amp;quot; gerund  phrase&amp;quot; or &amp;quot; gerundive  phrase&amp;quot;? The first is a noun and the second is an adjective. 
  
 Participal phrase / participial phrase 
  
 Preposition phrase / prepositional phrase 
  
 Adverb phrase / adverbial phrase 
  
 Etc. 
  
 When you see &amp;quot; nominal / nominative phrase,&amp;quot; substitute &amp;quot;noun phrase.&amp;quot; After that,...</description></item><item><title>Re: Predicate Nominative/ Predicate Adjective !HELP!</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/PredicateNominativePredicateAdjective/5/bvnpg/Post.htm#740570</link><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 02:15:27 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:740570</guid><dc:creator>anonymous</dc:creator><description>Okay here goes..
A predicate nominative is a noun that renames the subject, and can be swapped with the subject and still retain the sentence&amp;#39;s same meaning. Example: Clifford is my dog. The word &amp;#39;dog&amp;#39; would be a predicate nominative, as it can be rearranged to say &amp;#39;My dog is Clifford&amp;#39; and have the same meaning.   Predicate adjective is basically an adjective that describes a noun with the help of a linking verb. Very basic. Example: Clifford is red. The word &amp;#39;red&amp;#39; would be a predicate adjective. Note that predicate adjectives NEVER come before the verb. For instance, &amp;#39;The red dog&amp;#39; would not qualify the word &amp;#39;red&amp;#39; as a predicate adjective because it is not joined by a linking verb.        ...</description></item><item><title>Re:  Can the word "man" refer to a non-gender-specific person?</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/CanWordReferGenderSpecificPerson/wzqlv/post.htm#697592</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2009 21:10:14 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:697592</guid><dc:creator>avangi</dc:creator><description>I guess that&amp;#39;s an oversimplification.   A group, men, women, or mixed, is often addressed as &amp;quot;guys.&amp;quot;   &amp;quot;You guys have been terrific!&amp;quot;   The expletive &amp;quot;man&amp;quot; is used in speaking to a woman:   &amp;quot;Man, I&amp;#39;m really sorry about what happened!&amp;quot;   But the it wouldn&amp;#39;t be used as nominative of address:   &amp;quot;Listen to me, Man, this has really got to stop!&amp;quot;  At least, this would be rarely spoken to a woman.</description></item><item><title>Re: IT'S US WHO + singular or plural?</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/ItsUsWhoSingularOrPlural/vcrw/post.htm#686241</link><pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 13:09:22 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:686241</guid><dc:creator>anonymous</dc:creator><description>It&amp;#39;s I who has to apologize; and it&amp;#39;s we who have to apologize. 
 Explanation: &amp;quot;It is a singular noun, therefore &amp;quot;It&amp;#39;s&amp;quot; is correct even when &amp;quot;we&amp;quot; is the predicate nominative because the verb agrees with the subject, not the P.N. Next &amp;quot;who has&amp;quot; is correct because even though you would say &amp;quot;I have,&amp;quot; the verb &amp;quot;has&amp;quot; follows who, which is singular in the first clause. Finally, &amp;quot;we who have&amp;quot; follows the same rule: the antecedent for &amp;quot;who&amp;quot; is the plural &amp;quot;we.&amp;quot;</description></item></channel></rss>