 However, modern grammarians such as Rodney Huddleston and Geoffrey K. Pullum deny that such a rule exists in English and claim that such opinions "confuse correctness with formality".This argument for "it is I" is based on the model of Latin, where the complement of the finite copula is always in the nominative case (and where, unlike English, nominative and accusative are distinguished morphologically in all nominal parts of speech and not just in pronouns).The situation in English may, however, also be compared with that of French, where the historical accusative form "moi" functions as a so-called disjunctive pronoun, and appears as a subject complement ("c'est moi", 'it is me').