receiving the action of the verb. Rather, it is telling you something about the subject. In grammarians’ terminology, the pronoun “I” is predicating something about the subject. Because it is not receiving the action of the verb, the pronoun cannot be a direct object. Rather, it is called a “predicate nominative” and is put in the subjective case. It is incorrect English to say, “The teacher is me,” regardless of current usage, because “me” is objective while “I” is subjective. We should say, “The