The distinctions between subject and object forms of pronouns.
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Correct Question word: Who or whom? [duplicate]
I'm wondering which option is the right one:
Who is he having lunch with?
Whom is he having lunch with?
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Who vs whom in "Who is the right person to turn to?
Take the sentence:
Who is the right person to turn to?
I'm not sure whether who or whom should be used in this position.
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Usage of both apostrophe and “of” together [duplicate]
I was reading Agatha Christie’s The Murder of Roger Ackroyd and noticed following sentence:
About those boots of Ralph Paton’s.
It is really in old (old as in early or mid twentieth century) ...
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Should a photograph label read “you and I” or “you and me”? [duplicate]
I had a debate with my friend about this topic because he had a photo captioned:
Seth and I playing lion king
and I said it should be
Seth and me playing lion king
Which is correct?
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“Photographic” Pronouns [closed]
If someone labels a particular photograph, would it be "The kids and me" or "The kids and I"? If you break it down, you have two perspectives on this: "[This picture features or shows] the kids and ...
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“Whomever runs it's” or “whomever runs its”?
I know that "its" is the possessive form of "it", but does this rule apply to the possessive form of phrases ending in "it"? Should I say, "the program runs on whomever runs its computer" or "the ...
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“Taller than me” or “taller than I”? [duplicate]
Which one is correct here and why?
He is taller than me.
He is taller than I.
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Use of “me” vs. “I” in comparisons [duplicate]
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I can run faster than _____. (1) him (2) he?
I was using this sentence with an ease until my teacher scolded that this is wrong. He said to use I in place of me as ...
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“Be them” or “be they”? [closed]
Which of the following is grammatical?
He had lollies be they red or blue?
He had lollies be them red or blue?
It seems as if it could be them as an object of be.
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“Whoever” Vs. “Whomever”
On the subject of "whoever" and "whomever", I was reading this but I am still confused: http://www.grammarbook.com/grammar/whoever.asp
What is the correct use of whoever/whomever in the following ...
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When to use “we” and “us” — specific SAT example [duplicate]
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I can run faster than _. (1) him (2) he?
I am confused about the usage of the words 'we' and 'us'. I am using a Princeton Review 11 SAT tests 2011 edition, practice test ...
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Grammar/case in a salutation/greeting
I have a simple question — in a greeting or salutation such as "Good Morning Jane", since I believe it is a contraction, is Jane the object (as in "Good Morning to Jane") or is it the subject (as in ...
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“A similar hat to Jane” vs “A hat similar to Jane’s”
Of late I have noticed British people using the following sort of construct:
John and Jane make such a cute couple because John always wears a similar hat to Jane.
To my ear, that is ...
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“He is better than _____.” (1) I (2) I am?
Which of the following constructions is / are correct?
He is better than I.
He is better than I am.
PS: I'm unfamiliar with this site and its workings, so forgive me if my question fails to follow ...
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“Whom” or “who” and replies to such questions
Which is the most natural way to ask the question below? Are the replies correct? (Words in parentheses show that they are optional.)
Whose are these notebooks? - (Of) our students./These ...
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“Ask me anything” and “Ask anything to me”
There are some sentences I hear regularly:
Ask me anything
Ask anything to me.
If you ask me whether he was right, I would tell you "No".
If you ask me about whether he was right, ....
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Why is the accusative case used for a “topic”?
If I were to write a book about myself, Me would be a more natural-sounding title than I. Also, we say the us-vs.-them mentality instead of the we-vs.-they mentality.
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“It is I,” versus, “I am it” [closed]
In predicate nominatives, I was taught that you use the subject pronoun on either side. In other words. All of these sentences therefore sound right:
I am it. It is I.
You are it. It is you.
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“You and ME” Versus “YOU and I” [duplicate]
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Which is correct, “you and I” or “you and me”?
“Me and my wife” or “my wife and me”
Is this sentence correct "All I ...
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Is this use of whomever correct?
I take pride in my ability to deliver a warm and friendly welcome to whomever I meet.
My reasoning is that I am doing the meeting and the object is merely being met, hence whomever.
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“Me and my wife” or “my wife and me”
Which is correct: me and my wife or my wife and me? The sentence in which this is used is
Ms. Smith informed me and my wife that she was afraid of being accosted.
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“You know more about this than me/I” [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
I can run faster than _. (1) him (2) he?
Which is correct?
You know more about this than me.
You know more about this than I.
The second sounds unnatural, but ...
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Finnegan's Wake: “the least successful of whom was…” [closed]
Does the following sentence sound awkward because of the positioning of whom?
Beans grew up in a Roman Catholic household with four brothers; the least successful of whom was the bank president.
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Who decides the casing of newly coined words?
We are creating a product which is online hosted CMS solution (something like WordPress), and we want to call it Site Pack. However, there are places where we need to join these words together (like ...
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Is “you and I” the subject in this sentence?
I know that "you and I" should be used when it's the subject of a sentence, and "you and me" when it's a complement. But I'm not sure about the following phrase:
We are very good pals, you and I.
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“…as you and I am” versus “…as you and I are”
Which is the correct usage to end the following sentence?
[person] is not as [adjective] as you and I [am/are].
I'd also like to see some good fill-in-the-blanks.
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Which is grammatically correct: “Let he who…” or “Let him who…”
1) "Let he who believes in this prophet speak now what he knows."
2) "Let him who believes in this prophet speak now what he knows."
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Differences between Case Frames and Semantic role labeling
I'm learning about some basic linguistics theory and have come across case frame analysis and semantic role labeling as methods of determining agents within sentences, and arguments for verbs.
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Difference between “Let us go” and “Let we go”?
Just wanted to know the correct usage of 'us' and 'we' .
Are there any contexts in which they can be used interchangeably?
I know "Let we go" seems wrong..but couldn't explain it.
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Who vs. Whom for: “…Satan, who/whom everyone imagines with horns.” [duplicate]
Possible Duplicates:
What is the correct usage of “whom”?
Using “who” and “whom”
I'm not sure what the clause is called, but it usually describes ...
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In “Enter John”, is John in the nominative or accusative case?
This question made me think about the structure of the sentence.
I'm familiar with the expression 'Enter Michael'/'Exit John' to represent Michael's or John's entry or exit, respectively, to a ...
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Which grammatical case is “him” in “I help him”, and why?
In languages which distinguish the accusative and dative cases, it is clear from the actual usage whether a divalent verb takes a direct or indirect object. For example, the German eat takes a direct ...
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When using the preposition “for” should it be followed with the subjective or objective case?
The activity we engaged in was good for she and I.
or
The activity we engaged in was good for us both.
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The activity we engaged in was good for her and me.
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Subject vs. Object marking for whoever?
I know similar questions have been asked before, but I'm having trouble reconciling the following sentence, received in an email:
Can we ask whomever is your contact there to email us a job so we ...
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Is it correct to say that English has the dative case?
Is it correct to say that, nowadays, English has the dative case, or was it only present in Old English?
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Which one is correct to say: “It's me” or “It's I”?
I was taught at school that the following expression is not grammatically correct:
Who is there? It's me.
The correct one is:
Who is there? It's I.
Can you let me know which one is ...
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Is the “us” in “all that will be left is us” correct usage?
In this sentence taken from the movie AI is 'us' the correct form of the pronoun? It certainly sounds better than if it were written with 'we' instead of 'us'. Also, I can sort of see why 'is' is ...
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With who vs. With whom
Is this correct?
The person with whom I'm doing the project should be here soon.
If it is, is "with" always a dative preposition? (like "mit" in German)
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Why do we use the object instead of the subject pronoun in constructions like “stupid me”?
I'm trying to find out how come we say lucky me and stupid us rather than lucky I and stupid we. My understanding is that this is not a recent invention, but a relic from the distant past where it was ...
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Contemporary written usage of “whom” in objective case [duplicate]
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What's the rule for using “who” or “whom”?
I was writing a LinkedIn recommendation one day, and ended up pondering for a while which of these ...
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What’s the rule for using “who” and “whom” correctly?
I can never figure out whether I should use who and whom. Most people use who for both colloquially, but that’s not correct.
What’s the rule for using who and whom correctly?
