I was taught at school that the following expression is not grammatically correct: Who is there? It's me. The correct one is: Who is there? It's I. Can you let me know which one is accurate? Here is a good explanation about both forms.

From some comments in the answers for common English usage mistakes, there's confusion around the usage of I vs. me: While the sentence, "the other attendees are myself and Steve," is agreed to be incorrect, there's confusion about whether the correct form is "the other attendees are me and Stev...

With the enthusiastic question of "Who wants ice-cream?" What is the more correct negative response? 1) "Not I" 2) "Not me" Neither response is a sentence. The first response of "not I" sounds stuffy, like it should be followed with an indignant sniff. The second sounds like American idiom ...

The vicious murderer who shot up the movie theater in Aurora, Colorado last week was wearing, according to some reports, "full body armor."* Proponents of concealed-carry permits maintain that if the theater had not been a "gun-free" zone, the shooter could have been taken out in short order by a...

This ngram would suggest that cause for has barely been used. "Cause for" seems to mean "a valid reason for", as in "cause for alarm". "Cause of" implies a causal relationship, as in "this is the cause of that". I personally can't think of many contexts where "cause for" would be appropriate oth...

I was looking at this photo: What does tap out mean? I think it has to be related to boxing.