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There are my father, mother, grandparents, me who was seven years old, and my brother who was five years old.

The above sentence is used to describe a photograph. Is the sentence correct? Will it be "me" or "I"? Thanks

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    Some grammarians will insist the pronoun here should be ***I***, because it's a "nominative" usage (as the syntactic "subject" of the verb ***was** 7 yrs old*). But in practice most native speakers just use ***me*** anyway. – FumbleFingers Mar 11 '20 at 17:19
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    Does this answer your question? ["I and John" vs. "John and myself" vs. "John and I" -- Which is the acceptable way to refer to myself and my friend?](https://ell.stackexchange.com/questions/59412/i-and-john-vs-john-and-myself-vs-john-and-i-which-is-the-acceptable-w) – FumbleFingers Mar 11 '20 at 17:20
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    Usually I try to decide such things by removing everything but the "me" case to simplify. So does the "are" become "am" or "is" when it's just me? "There am I who was seven years old." "There is me who was seven years old." I don't really like either one. I would probably rewrite the whole thing. – puppetsock Mar 11 '20 at 19:40

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