Before the body was sent to the crematorium, shilling and Crump filled the casket with animal bones, meat, and a mannequin.
Object of the preposition: genius. The subject of the sentence is called a noun clause. It is a clause because it has its own subject and verb. It is also a dependent clause which cannot stand on its own because of the word that (a relative pronoun) at the beginning of the clause. A noun clause functions as a regular noun in a sentence.
COMPOUND PRONOUN SUBJECT He and I saw the solar eclipse. [He and I is a compound subject.] COMPOUND PRONOUN OBJECT That eclipse astonished him and me. [Him and me is a compound object.] When youâre unsure of the case of a pronoun, use the âTroyka test for caseâ in Box 9-2. In this four-step test, you drop some of the words from your sentence so that you can tell which case sounds correct. When pronouns are in a PREPOSITIONAL PHRASE, they are always in the objective case. (That is, a pronoun is always the OBJECT of the preposition.) This rule holds whether the pronouns are singular or plural. You can also use the test in Box 9-2 to check what is correct. NO Ms. Lester gave an assignment to Sam and I. [The preposi-