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    <dc:creator>Michael.Massing</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[It’s Me vs It is I
By Maeve Maddox

Back in the 18th century, when scholars were fiercely debating English grammar in an effort to “ascertain” and “fix” it, one of the proposed rules relating to pronouns was that a pronoun in the nominative case (what we now call a “subject pronoun”) must follow a form of to be:

It is I.
It is we.
It is they.

This rule is based on a rule that exists in Latin.

The existence of this rule in any language, however, does not prevent most English speakers from saying It’s me.

When someone phones me and says "Is Maeve Maddox there?” my response is always “This is she.” That’s the way my momma brought me up to answer the phone. She also taught me to say “To whom do you wish to speak?”

However, in face to face conversation, I’m much more likely to say It’s me.

It’s me is idiomatic English. It is I is not.

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    <dc:creator>Michael.Massing</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Grammar signifies more than just a person's ability to remember high school English. I've found that people who make fewer mistakes on a grammar test also make fewer mistakes when they are doing something completely unrelated to writing — like stocking shelves or labeling parts.
In the same vein, programmers who pay attention to how they construct written language also tend to pay a lot more attention to how they code. You see, at its core, code is prose. Great programmers are more than just code monkeys; according to Stanford programming legend Donald Knuth they are "essayists who work with traditional aesthetic and literary forms." The point: programming should be easily understood by real human beings — not just computers.
And just like good writing and good grammar, when it comes to programming, the devil's in the details. In fact, when it comes to my whole business, details are everything.
I hire people who care about those details. Applicants who don't think writing is important are likely to think lots of other (important) things also aren't important. And I guarantee that even if other companies aren't issuing grammar tests, they pay attention to sloppy mistakes on résumés. After all, sloppy is as sloppy does.
That's why I grammar test people who walk in the door looking for a job. Grammar is my litmus test. All applicants say they're detail-oriented; I just make my employees prove it.]]></description>
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A number of people believe he is innocent. <br />
A majority of residents want the town to reduce the recreation fee. <br />
A total of 15 people were arrested for burglary last month in our town. <br />
But: The number of residents who signed the petition has grown.]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>Michael.Massing</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[For all [Fowler's] classicist rigor, he was a tolerant man who realized that “tilting against established perversions...is vanity in more than one sense.” His ideal was a democratic one, a natural, unaffected and humbug-free English summed up in the word “idiom.” And if idiom and grammar are in conflict, so much the worse for grammar. Thus he was cheerfully lax about “who & whom” and the placement of “only,” and he mocked the pains people go through to avoid ending their sentences with prepositions. When it came to the notorious split infinitive (e.g., “to boldly go where no man . . .”), he observed that those English speakers who neither know nor care about them “are to be envied” by the unhappy few who do. Despite this abundance of common sense, one shouldn’t spend too much time in Fowler’s company. Better writers may be attracted to his volume, but more for random delight than for improvement....[H]eightened self-consciousness about usage is the enemy of vigor.'
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