Questions tagged [case]

This tag is for questions about distinctions between subject and object forms of pronouns.

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Do they only use accusative in this case?

a. It’s I. b. It’s me. “the choice between the cases for a predicative complement noun phrase varies according to the style level: the nominative is noticeably formal, the accusative is more or less neutral and always used in informal…
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"Who/whom was this street named after?"

I would like to know whom a street was named after. That's how I am asking it: Whom was this street named after? Is the question correct?
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"This is I at work." or "This is me at work."?

The context of this question: I take a snapshot of myself sitting in my cubicle and send it to someone. The caption of the photo I put is "This is I at work." but I just want to make sure (as what I think is the proper grammatical form sounds…