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Thank you We sneak In his eye pronouns with to

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be russia All right this is the most important day

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of phoebe's life She clutches her cellphone waiting for the

00:13

call Then it rings and she answers a deep voice

00:17

asked Is this phoebe williams It is i baby replies

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breathlessly Okay wait Just winning Phoebe this is the day

00:25

of days The moment of moments and you lead with

00:28

it is high We'll feed These grammar isn't wrong here

00:31

In fact her grammar is perfect But it is i

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this is the twenty first century not regency england Thie

00:39

problem is the grammar rule for pronouns with to be

00:43

truly is stuck in the past Thiers the rule when

00:48

a pronoun follows a linking verb the pronoun should be

00:51

in this subject of case of a lot of words

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there you know what that means right Well let's go

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back and start with the linking verbs Lincoln what are

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they Well they're verbs that are less about action and

01:02

more about connecting words together for example run jump scream

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dance and explode our action verbs They're things people do

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and largely and bruce willis movies is seem and appear

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however are looking verbs They're more about describing a state

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of being than an action of like doing something as

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for the whole subjective case pronoun thing While there are

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three pronoun cases the possessive case where pronouns express ownership

01:34

mind mean my ababa the objective case where pronouns are

01:38

the objects of propositions or verbs example example example right

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there and the subject of case where pronouns are used

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as the subjects of sentences like subjective case pronounce include

01:51

i you he she it we they and who normally

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subjective case pronounce appear at the beginning of sentences for

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example the subjective case pronoun she starts the sense she

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answered the phone in a subjective case pronoun we starts

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the sentence we heard her scream for joy but the

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good news however in the case of this one grammar

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rule when a pronoun follows a linking verb the pronoun

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should be in this subject of case we're going to

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see subjective case pronounce at the end of sentences got

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it a lot to digest their and now that we're

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all clear on our definitions it's example time if two

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little boys were found in the middle of the mess

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of glass at whole Foods and the store manager asked

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which child was responsible for sending twelve dozen bottles of

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organic root beer crashing to the floor Good grammar requires

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that the boys point to one another and say it

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was he if a hostess at a crowded pizza parlor

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yells at a table for ten is ready for the

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shreveport withers and warrior syndicate she's likely to hear a

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bunch of nerds holler back It is we all right

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Proper grammar also dictates that we use subject pronounced after

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the words van and as here's why say we have

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the sentence Nina was more excited to go hunting for

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ghosts in the old asylum Then they were Sounds good

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right Well it's a perfectly reasonable sentence But what if

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we shorten it by chopping off that last work so

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that we get meena was more excited to go hunting

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for ghosts in the old asylum than they Or what

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if we have the sense my little brother wants to

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see the dallas cowboys lose as much as i do

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again Here's A sense that sounds great to the ears

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until we hack off that last do so that we

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get my little brother Wants to see the dallas cowboys

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lose as much as i these sentences involving nina and

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a cowboy's hating kid brother sound normal when they're long

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and out of date when they're slightly shorter but the

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shorter versions of these two cents is explain why there's

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a grammar rule that insists on placing subject pronouns after

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thandi and as now that we've drilled home the rule

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that pronouns following linking verbs should be in the subject

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case and that subject pronoun should also be used after

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the words then and as it's time for some good

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news this rule is not as hard and fast as

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it seems huh If grandma bettie can't make out which

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boy in the picture of the youth league baseball team

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is her grandson grammarians won't flip out if the kid

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points to his likeness and says that is me instead

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of that is i if four girls are brought before

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the principal and asked a fess up to writing a

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burn book the english language will not die if the

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queen bee leads off with well they're guiltier than me

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instead of their guiltier than i see even grammarians recognized

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that placing subject pronounce after linking verbs and the words

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than and as it sounds wrong stilted absurdly proper and

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just play nice So when we find ourselves in casual

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conversation or for engaged in informal writing it's totally cool

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to break this particular grammar rules Hey that runs on

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now back to phoebe who has just learned not that

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she got into harvard but that she gets to be

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drum major next year Well different strokes for different folks 00:05:07.663 --> [endTime] Way Love you phoebe Good

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