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5 Do you think that you and (I, me) could study our grammar
together tomorrow?
Subject Pronouns with Linking Verbs
“Hello?”
“May I speak to Olivia Jones, please?”
“This is she.”
“Hello, Olivia, this is Derek Harmon from your biology class. I was
wondering . . .”
This polite exchange is typical of the way many telephone
conversations begin, and it illustrates a rule that many people use in
telephone conversations but ignore otherwise: When a pronoun
renames the subject (that is, when it is a subject complement) and
follows the verb to be or any linking verb, that pronoun takes the
subject form.
Examples of Subject Complements
subject linking verb subject
complement
The keynote speaker will be she. (not her)
It is I. (not me)
