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Posted by FCP User on 09/18/06 20:45
In article <Xns983FD27D2246Eh2atroak@140.99.99.130>,
Carey Carlan <gulfjoe@hotmail.com> wrote:
> "Thomas Bishop" <bishopthomas@hotmail.com> wrote in
> news:1158340993.433636.182590@p79g2000cwp.googlegroups.com:
>
> > Roy W. Rising wrote:
> >> > There's your first screw up. It wasn't Hank that posted the link, it
> >> > was me.
> >>
> >> OK, "me". [Of course, you meant to say "... it was I."]
> >
> > Actually, not to keep the flaming going, but he is correct in using the
> > pronoun "me." "I" is to be used as a subject, "me" in the predicate.
> > There are no independent clauses that would cause the first person to
> > be the subject of the phrase, just simple "Subject+verb+predicate."
>
> But it's being used in the nominative, not as a predicate.
>
> When the sentence can be turned around ("I was the one that posted the
> link."), "I" is correct.
God help us.
Sorry, but it's like the story of the composer who was listening to a
young pianist practice in the next room and the youngster left the
keyboard with a chord sequence unresolved.
After some time sitting the composer rose, walked to the next room, and
played the resolving chord - just to end his own mental anguish.
So please allow me to put an end to the whole thing in my brain...
"There's your first screw up. Hank didn't post the link - I did."
Thanks, I feel better now.
--
Bill Davis
StartEditingNow.com
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