Episode 54: Pronoun Pros and Cons
The History of English Podcast
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Modern English Pronoun Forms
According to modern english grammar, when a pronoun follows a verb like is, it has to take the subject form. This rule applies to all verbs which are classified as linking verbs. So i am i, not i am me and she is she, not she is her. And they are they, not they are them. But using that logic, it means we should say, it is i, not it is me. We should use the subject form, not the object form. It came from latin in the modern English period.
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