# Pictures: How do I put one in a post? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 20, 1999, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pictures-how-do-i-put-one-in-a-post/9722 "1999-10-20T22:41:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 1999, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pictures-how-do-i-put-one-in-a-post/9722/21 "1999-10-21T23:11:00Z")
As long as me message gets across. ---
**Author:** ![Poto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ab992/32.png) [@Poto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poto)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 1999, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pictures-how-do-i-put-one-in-a-post/9722/22 "1999-10-22T00:12:00Z")
There’s a group of verbs, such as “is”, “becomes”,and maybe “grows”. These don’t take the object form.More or less the two things are equal, there is no action in these verbs.Therefore, it is I. When someone asks for you on the phone, don’t you say “this is he” or “this is she”? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 1999, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pictures-how-do-i-put-one-in-a-post/9722/23 "1999-10-22T00:35:00Z")
Good grief, never thought one little word would wake up this thread quite like this! :o Daughter of an English teacher, dating the son of an Enlgish teacher, former copy editor of a paper, current teacher herself speaking: “is” is a linking verb. Pronoun objects of linking verbs are written in the nominative (even if it sounds peculiar): “This is she.” Ah, hell, I’ll just quote my _Working with Words_ grammar and editing text: > [@](#): > > **Nominative case** > If it’s the _subject_ or _predicate nominative,_ the pronoun needs to be in the nominative case: > _She_ is going to the store. > It is _I_. > **Compound subjects are all in the nominative case:** > \*She, he \*and _they_were arrested at the demonstration. Okay, so that last one sounds a bit goofy. But it’s correct grammar, no less. Now, if I had made Brian and myself direct objects to an action verb, the case would have been objective: “Sunbear posted Brian and me on the thread.” Same thing if it was the object of a preposition: “Sunbear posted a picture of Brian and me.” It’s that little “is” that makes all the difference. (That, and the fact that we were ultimately the subject of that particular sentence.) Okay, gang, start studying: Quiz Friday! 😉 P.S. And Sealemon…golly… :::blush blush::: Thank you! :::moves head to the side and kicks the sand at her feet::: * * * I used to think the world was against me. Now I know better. Some of the smaller countries are neutral. [Laura’s Stuff and Things](http://members.aol.com/lrconaway) ---
**Author:** ![Louie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c68b51/32.png) [@Louie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Louie)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 1999, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pictures-how-do-i-put-one-in-a-post/9722/24 "1999-10-22T01:27:00Z")
\ * * * Smile, it makes people wonder what you are thinking. [Fun with HTML (tutoral)](http://www.straightdope.com/ubb/Forum2/HTML/000194.html) [Give someone an F.U.](http://www.straightdope.com/ubb/Forum5/HTML/000255.html) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 1999, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pictures-how-do-i-put-one-in-a-post/9722/25 "1999-10-22T03:48:00Z")
Okay, here we go–my first attempt at a photo in a post! (I feel so virginal…) This _should_ be my cat Princess and myself when I was about four years old (to continue the “Dopers as Cute Rugrats” theme): \ * * * I used to think the world was against me. Now I know better. Some of the smaller countries are neutral. [Laura’s Stuff and Things](http://members.aol.com/lrconaway) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 1999, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pictures-how-do-i-put-one-in-a-post/9722/26 "1999-10-22T03:49:00Z")
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