I Should Give the Ball to Who?

In latin, a linking verb was used to link two noun or pronoun phrases of the same case. But for nearly 500 years, english speakers have been told not to say, it is me, but to say it is i instead. Since this was a borrowed rule, essentially imposed from the top down, it contradicts all that know about the use of old english pronouns. It has sowed the seeds of doubt in the minds of many English speakers. This little quirk means that when we have a sentence which uses the word is and we move that object forward, it has to be who, not whom.