In Nouns^x, American English^x, Nominative^x

Congratulations on your hard work. - A. Edit. "Why is the article "the" essential here?"

He is in the predicate nominative case. However, in casual speech following "must be" we break the grammatical rule and use the objective case. .

I sympathize with Jeff. When I was learning English--that's decades ago--I read a grammar book delineating the same rule as Jeff brought up. As years passed, I realized that's a rather weird rule. I checked it with native speakers, they said in unison to the effect that I should forget the...

Hi Happy, This area is a very contentious one, so it is not surprising that you find different pronouncements within and between grammar books. Here is my opinion on the examples you present: (1) 'Who did it ?' Not I.' The pronoun stands in parallel to the subject 'who', and is a...