II. The
rst-person singular pronoun is I Its
objective case is
“me”: It
is I give me the package The plural form of I are
“we” and us It is we
give us the package Obviously, the grammatically correct forms of I following
linking verbslike be now seem somewhat stilted. Most people would say (and many would write in the most formal circumstances It is me/us.” See also
case.Ibid. This
abbreviation of the
Latin word ibidem means in the same place It is used only in footnotes and endnotes in scholarly writing and should be avoided elsewhere. Even in notes or references
to scholarly writing, the modern preference is for repetition of a shortened title or author’s name instead of the somewhat opaque
Latinism.
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