By Prepositions, Nominative

English Grammer

I want brief explanations about following topics: 1- Narrations( Active Passive and Direct Indirect) 2- Clauses(Adjective,Noun,Adverb & Preposition clauses) 3- Predicate nominative.

Gerunds. Participles. Infinitives, Help?

I have to identify the verbal phrases (and verbals) and for participles determine whether they are present, past, or irregular.For gerunds whether they are subjects, direct objects, predicate nominatives, or objects of prepositions. And finally for infinitives determine whether they are nouns,...

Re: Predicate Nominative/ Predicate Adjective !HELP!

.You are half off.In #1, thoughtful is the predicate adjective and there is NO predicate nominative; people is nothing related to your problem--it is the object of a preposition.In #2, artist is the predicate nominative and there is NO predicate adjective; years is unrelated to your problem-- it...

Re: Is he perhaps the Angel of Music, who/whom her father had promised would

Her father had promised he would come to her - note that he is in the nominative. Who did he promise would come? ... who her father has promsised would come. (Compare: It was the man whom her father said she should look for. He said she should look for him. Whom did he say she should look...

Re: Grammatical Cases and the English Language

There are precious few relics of the Dative case remaining in Modern English. The word whom is currently in its death throes and has been for 100 years or so; and in serious (and possibly fatal) decline during the last fifty.But it must be remembered that whom is not a resident purely of the...

Re: "Than me" versus "than I am"

See http://www.bartleby.com/64/C001/052.html Part of it states: than has been used as a preposition since the 1500s in sentences like John is taller than me. In these cases the pronoun is in the objective case where the rule would require the nominative. This construction appears in the...

Re: Appositive, direct object, indirect, predicate nominative, object of prepos

DO(direct object), IO(indirect object, OC(objective complement), AP(appositive), PN(predicate nominative), S(subject), or OP(object of preposition). My try, (not sure about the blue part) Scurvy,s a vitamin C deficiency, makes peopledo weak and soreoc. Scurvy was the leading causepn of...

Appositive, direct object, indirect, predicate nominative, object of prepos

HELP ME UNDESTAND THIS PLZ Identify each italicized word as DO(direct object), IO(indirect object, OC(objective complement), AP(appositive), PN(predicate nominative), S(subject), or OP(object of preposition). Scurvy, a vitamin C deficiency, makes people weak and sore. Scurvy was the...

Would appreciate your help on these two grammar questions . . .

I wish my parents were more like we/us. The trip will be a good experience for people like you and I/me. I am thinking "we" and "I" are correct. I can't remember the grammar rule but I'm thinking that the first sentence could be restated with the ending "we are" and in the second sentence,...

Re: Whomever vs. whoever

Anonymous wrote: Although English is not my vernacular language, I believe that "whomever" is correct. For example, you give something to "someone." Someone cannot be nominative subject; whence "give this to "whomever" is correct. Lesly Guest answered the question perfectly in the...