quoth Bob: | Sorry I'm late on this, but-- | When you use any form of the verb 'to be' ( is, was, has been, what | some refer to as helper verbs) a predicate nominative is required. | Those are the I, we, they, he, she) of the personal pronoun not me, | us them, etc. nicely put, but dead wrong. -- dep the mind earns by doing. the heart earns by trying.