William R Ward wrote on 02 Jan 2005: William R Ward wrote on 01 Jan 2005: I agree with everything you say here. The rule is ... it stated quite clearly on The Grammar Doctor's website: http://www.geocities.com/grammardoc5/prednom.html

I never said A was incorrect. I said that the rule quoted by "Inquisitive" that you should always use the ... "I" is the subject of the verb phrase "broke the window." (Not sure where "who" fits into the

In our last episode, (Email Removed), the lovely and talented halcombe broadcast on alt.usage.english: I write the sentence ‘More puzzling is the candidate's views on free trade.' I parse the subject of the sentence to be the gerund

"webmanoffesto" (Email Removed) wrote on 05 Dec 2003: In the sentence "The most interesting subject on the course list is *linguistics*." What is the word linguistics, indirect object? This sentence has three parts: a subject,

In the Authorized Version, Jesus says in Mark 9, "Whom say ye that I am?" Shouldn't it be "who"? I ... in the nominative. So what's going on here? Is "that" the real complement of "be"? then what