gymnasts is the subject and were is the verb (linking) so the boy and his sister are predicate nominatives. ask youself this.."the champion gymnasts are whom?" "the gymnasts were whom, boy and sister. :)

"who" takes the case (subject, object) in the dependent clause. I know the person to whom the book is dedicated. (object case) I know the person who gave the dedication. (subject case) I know the person whom the police arrested.. (object

Hi sd15, << my remarks consider only non-fiction >> Forgive me, you caught me off guard. It's conceivable that a sentence like, "She ran to the end of the field and never looked back" might appear in a work of fiction. I

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

"Who threw the stone?" (reply) "It is one of those who are angry." I don't think "one" is the subject of anything here. It's a predicate nominative, or "complement" of the verb "is."

"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

"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

I am an EFL professor. Recently, when I used "I" in a predicate nominative (something like "It's I"), a fellow English instructor "corrected" me, saying "...me." I agree with Rommie, who also uses

basicly predacate nominative is a noun in the predacate. so first you have to find the subject. Example- Our te acher is Ms. Nancy. ^ ^ subject pred. nom. predicate adjective is an adjective in the predicate.

Hi! I'm having a re-examination in two weeks and I have a few questions that I don't really understand. First, analysing sentenses with NP, VP and so on. i.e She fell vad be Np, vp right? and fell is the predicate verb and she is the