Lesson 54
Pronouns with and as Appositives; After Than and As
An
appositive
is a noun or pronoun that is placed next to another noun or pronoun in
order to identify or give additional information about it.
Use the
nominative case
for a pronoun that is in apposition
to a subject or a predicate
nominative.
The team captains,
Maria and
I, will schedule practice. (
Captains is the subject.)
The shortstops were two sisters,
Cora and
she. (
Sisters is the predicate nominative.)
Use the
objective case
for a pronoun that is in
apposition to a direct object, an indirect
object, or an object of a preposition.
The judge sentenced the offenders, the
thief and
him. (
Offenders is a direct object.)
We gave
the cats,
Rocky and
her, some tidbits. (
Cats is the indirect object.)
The senator spoke to both opponents,
him and
me. (
Opponents is the object of the
preposition
to.)
When a pronoun
is followed by an appositive, choose the case of the pronoun that would
be correct if the appositive were omitted.
We climbers will beat you to the top of the mountain. (
We is correct because
we is the
subject of the sentence.)
Don’t
be so arrogant to us hikers. (
Us is correct because
us is the object of the
preposition
to.)
In elliptical
adverb clauses using than and
as, choose the case of the pronoun that you
would use if the missing words were fully expressed.
I am always awake earlier than
she. (Read: I am
always awake earlier than she is awake.)
Your words hurt her as much as
me. (Read: Your words hurt her as much as
they hurt me.)
Exercise 1
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