I apologize for having to delete the guest blogger post from last year, but for some reason that post received daily spam hits, forcing me to remove the post.
Archive for May, 2008
Spam Troubles
Sunday, May 25th, 2008Objective case, predicate nominatives, and predicate adjectives
Tuesday, May 20th, 2008From the mailbag:
I’ve had more questions about when to use “me” vs. “I.” What you really are asking is how to differentiate between the objective and subjective case of a pronoun. If the pronoun follows a verb or a prepostion, it takes the objective “me” form.
Give me the book. The book belongs to me.
If the pronoun is performing the action, it is the subject of the clause and requires the “I” form.
Am I the volunteer? It is I.
Back in the day, when we diagrammed sentences, we had a visual of the noun-verb-object (or modifier) that made it easy to choose the correct pronoun form.
I | is \ it
I miss diagramming and still diagram sentences in my head. 
Cheryl
