Can anyone offer a linguistic explanation for the following phenomenon related to pronoun case and partial determiners:
None of us want to go to school tomorrow.
None of we want to go to school tomorrow (**).
We want to go to school tomorrow.
Us want to go to school tomorrow (**).
In (1) the subject is the word “none”. The word “us” is part of the prepositional phrase “of us”.
Can anyone offer a linguistic explanation for the following phenomenon related to pronoun case and partial determiners:
None of us want to go to school tomorrow.
None of we want to go to school tomorrow (**).
We want to go to school tomorrow.
Us want to go to school tomorrow (**).
In (1) the subject is the word “none”. The word “us” is part of the prepositional phrase “of us”.