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Jarman Posted 11 years ago
Grammar

I and Me (pronouns)

And all the personal pronouns. When we use the nominative case and when the objective case?
It's me who is playing in the yard now.
or It's I?
  

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The rule is that you use the nominative case for subjects and nominative complements: I am who I am. And you use the objective case for objects of all sorts, direct and others: You hit me! Give me that bat.

— Deadrat

  • The rule is that you use the nominative case for subjects and nominative complements: I am who I am.
  • And you use the objective case for objects of all sorts, direct and others: You hit me!
  • Give me that bat.
  • I don't want you swinging at me again.
  • " The tone is considered either too formal or too affected or both.
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The rule is that you use the nominative case for subjects and nominative complements:

I am who I am.

And you use the objective case for objects of all sorts, direct and others:

You hit me! Give me that bat. I don't want you swinging at me again.

But most people simply don't follow the rule for "It'
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Right?: You and I are playing in the yard. You hit me.
I hit his.
These nominative complements, what are they?
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The nominative complement completes the description of the subject after a copulative verb (i.e., a verb of being or feeling). The complement can be a noun to tell who or what the subject is, or it an be an adjective to describe the subject.

noun: He is Michael Jackson.
adjective: He seems bad.

In your examples "You and I" forms a compound subject. "Playing
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