Wednesday, November 20, 2002 :::
A grammar quiz that would give many people trouble. I think the answer to number 8 is different in British English than American, and frankly the British usage drives me nuts.English, of course, is a descriptive language, and if enough people are making the same mistake there comes a point when it should be considered correct; I'm much more conservative on grammar than on vocabulary, though, and would insist that new rules at least make sense. I strenuously object to the use of the nominative of a pronoun as the object of a preposition based on what words are near the pronoun instead of on the role that the pronoun plays in the sentence.
::: posted by dWj at 12:23 PM