By Pronouns, Grammar

My approach owes more to the concepts of transformational grammar, so I would sayhim doing his job every day is a non-finite clause used as the object of think of.Within that clause him is the pronoun subject, doing is the verb, his job is the noun object, and every day is adverbial. CJ

Yes, as far as who is concerned. What is something else. It never has an antecedent as a relative pronoun, neither singular nor plural, nothing, and that's why a singular verb is used with it. This is obvious from the singular that, which occurs in that which, which is sometimes used to...

See, this the weird thing. While that last sentence doesn't sound right, this one does:Are these the pens you're looking for? Thanks, but no, those aren't the ones I'm looking for.

Hi New2grammar I think the Americans would use 'was' despite the presence of 'they'. In fact, in BrE some grammarians prescribe 'was'. However, the majority say that it should be 'were' to be consistent with the plural pronouns. A team of soldiers was on a...

I don't agree. Just because the verb is implied doesn't mean the pronoun should be subject. No person who has learned English purely through acquisition would ever use the subject pronoun in this case; it's just not "English". GG, do you say "me too" or "I...

This is English not Latin, but unfortunately there are certain people who try to show how clever they are by insisting Latin grammar should be applied to English. In English we use the subject pronoun when there is a following verb, otherwise we use the object pronoun. i.e:"He is taller than...

Dear Readers ,I have a confusion regarding the following sentences 1.) The person at the door was he/The person at the door was him. The person at the door was I/ The person at the door was me. In such sentences what is the subject and what is the object? The problem is that if you flip the...

Hmm... this seems to be another case of varying terminology. I have no objection to calling a participle an adjective, I'm just not used to that. Nor am I used to many other grammatical terms used here, like "a noun phrase". Don't get me wrong! I certainly don't mean...

Actually, infinitives are used in AmE as subjects. The location geographically or historically has nothing to do with it. But infinitives (and their complement(s), if any), taken together, can make noun phrases.To be absolutely precise, it is a noun phrase (NP) that must be the subject of a...

Hi N2GIt has become more and more fashionable to use hyphens in English and therefore some might put a hyphen between much and needed but I don't think that is necessary. I wouldn't object to one, either. Clearly, the relative clause is a non-defining one and thus a comma is needed,...