 though not verbally Latin, yet it is the outcome of the Latin grammatical doctrine that the verb to be takes the same case after it as before it. This is a plain instance of the invasion of idiom by grammar.  State Normal Monthly - Page 26by Kansas State Teachers College of Emporia - 1897Full view - About this book
 | Charles Swain Thomas, Will David Howe - 1908 - 536 pages
...pronoun completing the infinitive "to be" used with a subject should be in the objective case. NOTE. — The verb " to be " takes the same case after it as before. 6. My friend, whom (who) I hoped would give me some assistance, disappointed me. " Whom " is incorrect,... | |
 | Charles Swain Thomas, Will David Howe - 1908 - 536 pages
...pronoun completing the infinitive " to be" used with a subject should be in the objective case. NOTE. — The verb " to be " takes the same case after it as before. 6. My friend, whom (who) I hoped would give me some assistance, disappointed me. " Whom " is incorrect,... | |
 | Peter Roberts - 1912 - 226 pages
...feel, hear, let, make and see, and generally after help, need and please, it is omitted: I bid thee go. The verb to be takes the same case after it as before it: It is I. The verb to teach has two objects following it: Teach me thy laws. The one is the person,... | |
 | Henry Seidel Canby, John Baker Opdycke - 1913 - 640 pages
...nominative. 4. We are inclined to misuse pronouns in noun clauses and infinitives. We must remember that the verb to be takes the same case after it as before it; hence, " I know the man to be him," for, " him " refers to " man " and agrees with it, at the same... | |
 | Henry Seidel Canby, John Baker Opdycke - 1913 - 626 pages
...nominative. 4. We are inclined to misuse pronouns in noun clauses and infinitives. We must remember that the verb to be takes the same case after it as before it; hence, " I know the man to be him," for, " him " refers to " man " and agrees with it, at the same... | |
 | Henry Seidel Canby - 1918 - 624 pages
...nominative. 4. We are inclined to misuse pronouns in noun clauses and infinitive phrases. Remember that the verb to be takes the same case after it as before it; hence, " I know the man to be him," for, " him " refers to " man " and agrees with it, at the same... | |
 | Reginald Wright Kauffman - 1919 - 334 pages
...entirely. You weren't colloquial." "I was correct," she insisted. " 'It is I' is correct. My grammar says that the verb 'To be' takes the same case after it as before it. If the Americans say something else, they do not speak good English." Cartaret laughed. "The English... | |
 | Alfred Darby - 1919 - 224 pages
...Participle) agrees with the Nominative of the sentence in Case. This fact is usually stated in the form, " The Verb 'to be' takes the same case after it as before it", but the concord has nothing to do with the Copula, which exercises no governing power ; the Adjective... | |
 | Henry Preston Vaughan Nunn - 1922 - 222 pages
...the subject of the verb in number, gender and case. This rule is sometimes put in the following form: The verb ‘to be' takes the same case after it as before it. Examples:. Caesar imperator est. Caesar is general. Metelli facti sunt consules. The Mdclii have been... | |
 | 1925 - 850 pages
...sound basis for that decision must be that we do not use "me" in this expression. Obviously the rule that "the verb 'to be' takes the same case after it as is used before it" is not the final measure to be applied in this case but must yield, as rules have... | |
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