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

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, and the usage issue.Re the grammar, there are...

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

Sorry, I took "in line 4 of this writing piece" as a colloquialism, "in line 4 of a certain writing piece." I thought it was weird.

Hello.I'm in 8th grade and am homeschooled. In my English class, I have recently been learning about diagraming subjects, appositives, direct objects, object of prepostitions, and predicate nominatives.It would be easy, if I was still understanding the major parts. So I've been doing some...

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.

I thought it was a "conjunction", is it not? Here is the text, a text that shows "noun infinitives" used in different ways, in which "but" is catagorized as a preposition: The noun infinitive can be a subject (To eat is fun.); a direct object (I like to...

Thanks.  I always get mixed whenever these who/whom pronouns get anywhere near a linking verb that is preceded by an action verb in a sentence.  I can never decided whether the pronoun is in the object case of the action verb (in this case the object of assume, so therefore choose 'whom')...

"Scurvy, a vitamin C deficiency, makes people weak and sore."Scurvy is the subject, because it is the thing which "makes people weak and sore."People is the direct object, because it is what scurvy is affecting, direct objects usually follow verbs.Weak and sore are objective...

"Scurvy, a vitamin C deficiency, makes people weak and sore."Scurvy is the subject, because it is the thing which "makes people weak and sore."People is the direct object, because it is what scurvy is affecting, direct objects usually follow verbs.Weak and sore are objective...