Posted by Carey Carlan on 01/11/88 11:58

"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.

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