grammar - Noun order: He and we. . . or We and he. . . ? Similarly . . . John and we got a lot of experience working on the project or That project's experience really benefited John and us Clearly, he is mentally separated from the others of us who were on the team, at least in this context, so I was just wondering if there were some grammatical conventions to govern this situation
It is he versus it is him [duplicate] - English Language Usage . . . The case of he him should depend on other considerations, such as, the proper case after the linking verb, "is" It should be simply a matter of which is more correct, It is he Or, It is him My Latin education would have me pick the former But my knowledge of colloquial English tells me that the phrase, "it was him", is commonly used
He Isnt She Isnt V. S. Hes Not Shes Not No there is not Or no there's not :) Isn't is a contraction of "is not" He's she's is a contraction of "she is he is" They are just different ways of writing the same sentence
word order - Why didnt he vs. Why did not he - English Language . . . 1 1 - It is "Why did he not come to work?" 2 -The shortened form is "Why didn't he come to work?" This is something that confuses learners But almost everybody discovers by reading that in the long form (1) "did" and "not" don't stand together Everybody has to learn this except Germans who say it in the same way I mean the long form
Is using he for a gender-neutral third-person correct? I know there are different opinions on this issue My question: Is using "he" for a general, gender-neutral third person still in common use for formal writing? By common use I mean, can I expect my
grammaticality - Whether or not vs. whether - English Language . . . As Henry Higgins observed in Pygmallion, the best grammarians are often those who learned English in school as immigrants My parents, who were first-generation Americans in the early 20th century, learned English grammar in NYC public schools meticulously They insisted "whether or not" is proper usage, period Over time, language evolves or erodes and the rules change, which really means
quotes - Origin of the saying God must love the poor because he made . . . The Grange is the organization of the common people, and Abraham Lincoln once said he thought “ God must love the common people ; He had made so many of them ; ” and could we but be imbued with the missionary spirit, what a messenger of intelligence the Grange might become to the lowly and neglected
word choice - User: She, He, She or He, or They? - English Language . . . Which you use is a matter of preference, each with its relative merits and issues: "he or she" is unlikely to upset anybody for violating either their ideologies or belief in Victorian grammar, but it's a bit long-winded; "he", using the masculine form as 'default' when the gender is unknown, has plenty of counterparts in plenty of languages, but feminists may get upset that you're not