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Anonymous Posted 14 years ago
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The subject and object in these sentences?

I know that the subject and object is easy to identify in many sentences, e.g. 'Melissa threw the ball to us'.

However, I am confused by sentences like 'For we seniors, lighter is better, lighter driver, lighter irons, lighter hybrids' and 'The biggest improvement for we seniors is the weight.' Words marks the 'we' as being wrong and that it should be 'us' and not 'we'. I thought that seniors were the subjects in these sentences?
  

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'For we seniors, lighter is better, lighter driver, lighter irons, lighter hybrids' Seniors is the object of the preposition " for " Word marked " we " wrong, because an object of the preposition should be in object case. " So it is not inflected. The core of the sentence is "Lighter (subject ) is better (predicate adjective) "

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  • 'For we seniors, lighter is better, lighter driver, lighter irons, lighter hybrids' Seniors is the object of the preposition " for " Word marked " we " wrong, because an object of the preposition should be in object case.
  • " So it is not inflected.
  • The core of the sentence is "Lighter (subject ) is better (predicate adjective) "
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'For we seniors, lighter is better, lighter driver, lighter irons, lighter hybrids'

Seniors is the object of the preposition "for"

Word marked "we" wrong, because an object of the preposition should be in object case.
However, "we" is being used in an odd way, as an adjective, modifying "seniors." So it is not inflected.

The core of the sentence
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