Questions tagged [grammatical-case]
The distinction between subject and object forms of pronouns. For questions about upper- and lowercase, use the tag "capitalization".
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Who or Whom? Which is correct?
That's who we know about.
Whom doesn't sound right.
Predicate copulative?
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Determining a subject or object: what is the subject or object in this sentence "Has the door been fixed yet?"
I am a native English speaker, and have not formally learnt or done deep analysis of English grammar rules. I am now learning German, and a resource I am using uses English sentences and the idea of &...
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"Who" is to "whose", like "which" is to …? [duplicate]
As far as I can tell, "whose" is a possessive form of "who".
Is there a similar possessive form for "which" or "what"? Sometimes my brain has reached for "...
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Use of "us" as personal determinative
Consider this sentence:
There is lots of stuff in us shoppers' carts.
I know it is awkward but I am interested in whether it is grammatically correct. Should "us" be changed to "we&...
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Is it correct to say your pronouns are "she/they" or should it be "she/them"?
My daughter just submitted a college app and said her pronouns were "she/they". I told her, in the nicest way that I didn't want to be demeaning, but your pronouns can't be "she/they&...
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"Different than" followed by nominative case?
I'm going to try to explain my question as clearly as I can:
"Different" usually takes a preposition, either "from" (standard English regardless of region), "to" (British ...
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What pronoun should I use, "by we who" or "by us who"? [duplicate]
He will be yelled at by we who hate him.
He will be yelled at by us who hate him.
After by you use us, but in this case I'm confused. Which one of these sentences is correct?
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dialect/idiolect quirk? "for whom" instead of "whose"
I'm a native (American English) speaker and I've noticed that this is a weird feature of my idiolect. Here is a direct quote:
To the person for whom I spilled apple cider, if you're watching this, I'...
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Does this sentence need "me" or "I"? [duplicate]
Here is the sentence. Which one is correct?
Dec. 21st from 9:30-10:30 can work for both I-SHEA and I.
Dec. 21st from 9:30-10:30 can work for both I-SHEA and me.
I think it should be I-SHEA and me ...
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Object / accusative personal pronouns replacing actor in certain clauses [duplicate]
I'm a native English speaker, and I noticed that I sometimes use accusative pronouns (him, her, me) to replace actors in certain clauses. I have a feeling this is prescriptively considered incorrect ...
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Personal pronouns in 18th-century Cornish English
I think in the year 1700 there were still a few adults in Cornwall whose usual mode of communication among themselves was the rapidly dying Cornish language, but only a tiny number of children could ...
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Is "going on a technology retreat" ambiguous for you?
I've using "being on a technology retreat" to mean that I will shun technology.
But my friend U says that this expression cannot signify retreating from technology; instead, it means ...
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Any online tool that highlights what grammatical case each word in a sentence belongs to?
I'm absolutely confused when it comes to cases in English, and more so when I'm studying other languages (leisurely). I've tried to learn cases at least three times in my life and every time it just ...
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Are these uses of infinitive phrases syntactic modifiers or syntactic complements, and of what?
I have two questions about the grammatical roles of the infinitive phrases in these two sentences:
He is the person to contact if you will need any advice.
There is a person to connect A PC to B PC.
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Possessives with gerunds
When a phrase, such as “doing something” is used used as a noun, I understand it becomes a gerund phrase. When it includes a pronoun subject, the phrase becomes a clause, in which the pronoun ...
