{"id":404,"date":"2006-05-29T16:31:55","date_gmt":"2006-05-29T08:31:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/loveactually.fakedevil.com\/?p=404"},"modified":"2006-05-29T16:31:55","modified_gmt":"2006-05-29T08:31:55","slug":"the-answer-behind-the-grammar-qn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secret.6eptember.com\/?p=404","title":{"rendered":"the answer behind the grammar qn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>dear friends who attempted the question&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.. the answer is actually <strong>(2)he<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>i thought the answer given in the ans sheet was wrong&#8230; coz when i did the qn myself, i choose (3) too!!! so i thought i wld juz ask my frens what they thnk abt it&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>in the end, i went to <a href=\"http:\/\/crofsblogs.typepad.com\/english\/\">ASK THE ENGLISH TEACHER<\/a> and i was sooo lucky&#8230; coz someone asked him a pronoun qn too!<\/p>\n<p>according to him,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Case&#8221; defines the job the pronoun is doing in the sentence. If the pronoun is the subject of the sentence (or of a subordinate clause in the sentence), it&#8217;s in the subjective case: I, he, she, we, they, who. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>so&#8230; in this qn&#8230;. the pronoun is indeed the subject of our qn (our subject is &#8216;best of friends&#8217; ), so we use the only subjective pronoun &#8216;he&#8217; which is given in the qn&#8230;we  cannot use &#8216;I&#8217; coz the qn say &#8220;aren&#8217;t you?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>this is what you&#8217;ll get:  &#8220;You and <strong>he<\/strong> are the best of friends, aren&#8217;t you?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>isn&#8217;t this tricky????<\/p>\n<p>man.. it&#8217;s even more tricky to explain to the kids&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>btw&#8230;. given this type of pronoun qn&#8230;. next time when u call someone.. it&#8217;s correct to say &#8220;HI! it&#8217;s<strong> I<\/strong>!&#8221;   &#8230; coz&#8230; &#8220;HI! it&#8217;s <strong>ME<\/strong>!&#8221; is grammatically wrong!<\/p>\n<p>grammar is crap&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>dear friends who attempted the question&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.. the answer is actually (2)he i thought the answer given in the ans sheet was wrong&#8230; coz when i did the qn myself, i choose (3) too!!! so i thought i wld juz ask my frens what they thnk abt it&#8230;. in the end, i went to ASK THE [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secret.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secret.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secret.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secret.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secret.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/secret.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secret.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secret.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secret.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}