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To: Robert A. Cook, PE

The verb "to be" is intransitive, it never takes an object, therefore the correct form is the nominative (I think that's what we called it in Latin). "It is I" is correct. "It is me" is incorrect, but it's what everybody says, and the world won't come to an end if we're all wrong. Or so I've been made to believe.


146 posted on 07/20/2005 1:54:20 PM PDT by Argh
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To: Argh

Next you're gonna tell me the London bombs were in the subway, right intrainsitive view of any fellow rider.


151 posted on 07/20/2005 1:56:54 PM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (-I contribute to FR monthly, but ABBCNNBCBS supports Hillary's Secular Sexual Socialism every day.)
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To: Argh

you are the smartest person i know, arghy : )


157 posted on 07/20/2005 2:21:20 PM PDT by xsmommy
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