By Whom, Predicates

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 this form as a matter of course. However, I...

I'm taking a correspondence course. These are some of the exercises that I need to submit. So please I need help from grammar exerperts thnaks. Exercise 1: Identify each of the “ __ ” words in the sentences as one of the following parts of the sentence: 1.Direct object 2.Indirect...

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

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 subject. But what kind of a clause is this? It's a complete...

Lcchang wrote: I just feel the following sentence a little hard to find where its main subject and verb are. And where is the subordinate cluase in it? Shopping in the Internet is for those consumers for whom going to malls has become a nightmare. LCChang IMO main subject : Shopping (in...

I have a question if you were writing steps for predicate nominatives or predicate adjectives would ur last step be the verb is asking what to whom???

No. There isn't really a rule, although generally the preposition that introduces the interested person usually depends on the adjective. There is usually a more-used preposition and perhaps another that is also acceptable. useful to essential to helpful to unpleasant for exciting...

Hello Mr P Indeed, there are even authorities for 'Whom are you?' (I believe the OED will back me up on this one) OED doesn't say about "Whom are you?", but it says about nominative 'whom' errorneously used in embedded clauses; whom 3. Used ungrammatically for the nominative who, esp. as...

Hello people I came across to an idea I had been too much stuck to the Chomskians' interpretation of the SVOO structure. I got another explanation to the question: why the wh-question of 'She gave him the book) in current English) must be 'To who(m) did you give the book?'. It would be simply...

Intriguing. I would agree that the adverbs in: 1. 'The sky is probably blue'; 2. 'The sky is sometimes blue' modify the whole sentence in each case. I would agree too that the adverb in: 3. 'The sky is fairly blue' can be regarded as part of 'Y', if 3 is regarded as 'X = Y'. But I would not...