Comments on: A Girl Like I

By: connie

connie — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 03:45:05 +0000

“…like I do” makes sense, right?

By: Maeve Maddox

Maeve Maddox — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 14:01:59 +0000

Tony,
Yes, we have moles over here. I have them so bad this summer that to walk in my garden is like walking on moist sponges.

As for “mole hole,” Rod’s comment inspired this DWT post:

http://www.dailywritingtips.co.....-molehill/

By: Tony Hearn

Tony Hearn — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 21:58:54 +0000

‘Making a mountain out of a mole hill’ is what we say here in England. That’s what we call the little excavations the creatures leave in lawns and fields. (Do you have moles Stateside?)

As to ‘It is I/me’: whatever the purists say, current idiomatic English on both sides of the Atlantic is ‘It is me’, or, more likely, ‘It’s me’. Here ‘me’ is what grammarians call a ‘disjunctive pronoun’ if you want to impress/bore your audience. Similarly ‘It’s/ was her/us/them’. I remember being taught the propriety of ‘It is I’ at school, and I know that Judas says ‘Is it I, Lord?, at the last supper, but nowadays this sounds, surely, pretentious or pompous or both, and certainly unidiomatic.

By: Rod

Rod — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 18:00:19 +0000

Is it me? or these guys make a mountain out of a mole hole

By: Maeve

Maeve — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 17:14:31 +0000

I did a post on the “It is I/It is me” issue not too long ago:

http://www.dailywritingtips.com/its-me-vs-it-is-i/