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In response to the questions posed in the first post of this thread, "the officer" is NOT the subject of the sentence regardless of whether the sentence is active or passive. "The officer" is undoubtedly the doer of the action in both sentences, but it is the subject only in...

<I would be interested to see quotations from the early English grammarians that presented spoken English as somehow inferior, or that demonstrated an imposition of inappropriate rules from Latin. > Do you doubt that was the case? If so, I guess you disagree with this: "If they...

"than me" sounds much more normal to me than "than I". http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Writing/t.html Than, as used in comparatives, has traditionally been considered a conjunction; as such, if you're comparing subjects, the pronouns after than should take the "subjective case." In...

In these different constructions, different types of things are ellipted. 1) My father bought me a cell phone which is as small as a mouse. . Fish is the direct object of caught . Many is an adjective modifying fish , and the first as is an adverb modifying many . Again, the second as is a...

Hi there, I know that my problem isn´t grammar in general but I would really love some help in analysing these sentences which I find very difficult! I´ve tried myself, but I know my tries are incorrect. Thanks in advance. I am supposed to identify the primary sentence constituents in...

You're most welcome, Hela. I love everything connected with English grammar, and syntactic analysis is my favourite topic! I have A Grammar of Contemporary English and A University Grammar of English with me, so I can even give you page numbers to go with my words this time! In A Grammar...

http://pinker.wjh.harvard.edu/articles/media/1994_01_24_thenewrepublic.html Probably no "grammatical error" has received as much scorn as "misuse" of pronoun case inside conjunctions (phrases with two parts joined by is an object that requires object case, it does not mean that is an...

I really need help with this grammar. It is pretty advanced. I hope you will take the time to review my question's. I know it's alot, but it is very important. I need to know the subject, the verb (whether it is an action or linking verb), the verbs compliment (Direct Object and Indirect...