Mr Pinker writes that it is normal informal English style to use the accusative pronouns me, him, her, us or them in a predicate after forms of the verb to be (am, is, are, was, were and so on).
"People that I've talked to regarding the TV show, they're asking: Who are your guests going to be? Am I nervous to go out there?
"You were so good in Reservoir Dogs!" They walk away and I wonder: who am I supposed to be? Am I Steve Buscemi?
The debt to Eliot's "Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock" is equally transparent: No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be; Am an attendant lord, one that will do To swell a progress, start a scene or two... Full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse; At times, indeed, almost ridiculous — Almost, at times, the Fool.
Since we need the ACK information to predict the playback buffer status of the DASH client, the RLC mode is set to be AM (acknowledged mode).
Brushing off political calculations, she said, "It really has to be, 'Am I equipped to do the job?'..
