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Would it have been (he, him) who scored the winning goal?I can never tell which one to use.Also: Is money a concrete noun, or could it be collective?He acts (like,as) he did in the 3rd grade.Thanks!!!

Paco2004 · Accepted Answer

Let me tell a bit of my knowledge about what you are asking in the first question.

AnonymousWould it have been (he, him) who scored the winning goal?
I can never tell which one to use.

The English in old days was a very 'human' language. The old Anglo-Saxon people respected persons much more than things. So when they wanted to say "It = I", they said "It am I". This means that they thought the subject of the sentence should be "I", although "It" stood at the head. But this good tradition of old Anglo-Saxons was lost during the Viking Age. When the Viking Age ended and Chaucer's days came, people began to think "It" in "It am I" should be the subject. So they changed the verb "am" into "is". Thus the collocation of "It is I" was established and people continued to say this way until the beginning of the 17th century when grammarians began to try to organize their messy vulgar language into a more decent and gramatically more consistent language. One of the things those grammarians noticed was that most English sentences take the word order of subject - verb - object. So some of them began to argue that "It is I" was grammatically wrong, because "I" is the form for subjects, not for objects, and they insisted that the right collocation should be "It is me".Their opinion was gradually being accepted among people and now "It is me" is considered to be the grammatical form.

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Pieanne · Answer

"Money" is an uncountable: "Money is very important nowadays". You can use with "the" if it's defined "i can pay you back the money you lent me last year".

I'd say "he acts like he did in the 3rd grade", = in the same way.

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