But there are some second-person pronoun phrases as well. "Your majesty," "your highness," and the like are examples, though note that they take third-person singular verbs: "If your majesty ...

The key word here is “governing”. The pronoun is therefore “governed”, confirming the accusative as the correct case. Geoff Davies WWAM Writers, Birmingham, UK ...

Pullum responds: The forms with nominative pronouns sound ridiculously stuffy today. In present-day English, the copular verb takes accusative pronoun complements and so does “than.” My advice would ...

GCSE Pronouns Pronouns and cases Understanding how to use pronouns in place of nouns, and which case to put them in, will enable you to add variety to your German and will help you to communicate ...

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GCSE Pronouns Pronouns - word order Understanding how to use pronouns in place of nouns, and which case to put them in, will enable you to add variety to your German and will help you to ...

The standard wisdom about case of pronouns that are predicative complements (and that includes many complements of "than" and "as") is that if you could fill in a clause instead of a pronoun, and ...