Comments on: Interrogative Pronouns https://www.grammarbook.com/blog/pronouns/interrogative-pronouns/ GrammarBook.com Mon, 18 Oct 2021 17:46:52 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.5 By: GrammarBook.com https://www.grammarbook.com/blog/pronouns/interrogative-pronouns/#comment-1485235 Mon, 18 Oct 2021 17:46:52 +0000 https://www.grammarbook.com/blog/?p=5256#comment-1485235 In reply to Sharon Kelly.

As our post I Subject, Your Honor indicates, if the sentence construction is a subject, a form of be (e.g., is, was, were), and a subject complement, we use the subjective case. Therefore, “It is he” is formally correct.

]]> By: Sharon Kelly https://www.grammarbook.com/blog/pronouns/interrogative-pronouns/#comment-1483898 Sat, 09 Oct 2021 12:52:10 +0000 https://www.grammarbook.com/blog/?p=5256#comment-1483898 Which is correct:
It is he or it is him?

]]> By: GrammarBook.com https://www.grammarbook.com/blog/pronouns/interrogative-pronouns/#comment-1474320 Fri, 06 Aug 2021 22:18:25 +0000 https://www.grammarbook.com/blog/?p=5256#comment-1474320 In reply to Simone.

In that sentence, the word which is not a noun standing alone but rather an adjective modifying the noun drawer. The article identifies such usage as an interrogative adjective.

]]> By: Simone https://www.grammarbook.com/blog/pronouns/interrogative-pronouns/#comment-1473577 Mon, 02 Aug 2021 11:31:15 +0000 https://www.grammarbook.com/blog/?p=5256#comment-1473577 Which drawer do you keep your socks in? How come it’s not an interrogative pronoun?

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