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Old Wed Mar 13, 2002, 10:03am
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Originally posted by Mark Dexter
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Now we know who Mr. Spelling is on the McGriff board!
Actually, it's usually me.

No - wait - I'm Mr. Grammar Guy and his variants. [/B]
I'm not trying to take away your title, Mark, but shouldn't it be "Actually, it's usually I"? The "I" is not the object of "It's" (which would require the objective case); rather, "I" is simply renaming the "It's" (which requires the nominative case).

Just my two cents,

Mr. Context Guy
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