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Ngmuipai Posted 8 years ago
Grammar

Nominative vs objective

I will arrive before he or him?

  

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I will arrive before him . I will arrive before he does . Not a teacher.

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  • I will arrive before him .
  • I will arrive before he does .
  • Not a teacher.
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I will arrive before him.

I will arrive before he does.

Not a teacher.

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It's nominative. I will arrive before he (arrives).

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I will arrive before him.

CJ

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[1] I will arrive before [ ___ him/*he ].

[2] I will arrive before [he/him ___].

Both are possible with no difference in meaning. It's not just a matter of grammar, but also of formality.

Where the pronoun is understood as complement or object of a preposition as in [1] the pronoun is accusative, just as it is in unred

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