Alas, This is Me

I have to discipline myself not to answer unasked questions about grammar mistakes. Here’s the comic:

Now. How many of you wondered about the title to this post having “me” instead of “I”? After all, technically, linking verbs get predicate nominatives, not direct objects. But “This is I” sure sounds unnatural.

I think the grammatical solution would be to change the whole sentence to something like “This is something I would be tempted to do.” Yeah, it’s not as concise, and short headlines are generally better. Besides, using “me” gives me a point of grammar to write about!

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Most compound adjectives are two words connected by a hyphen. But occasionally, more than two words are necessary. Here’s the passage:

So should we use four hyphens? You could.

I’ve posted this topic a bunch of times, but I just ran into two examples, so I better mention it again.

and—

In case the errors aren’t immediately obvious to you, here’s the rule:

• When you’re comparing two things, use the comparative form: better.
• When you compare three or more things, use the superlative form: best.

This error is so common, it’s probably a losing battle, but still…

You saw the errors, right?

I hope I don’t need to tell you that “Here lies” is the correct form.

Having a problem posting new content. Might be fixed!