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Anonymous Posted 17 years ago
Has much changed since 1979?
"Such common expressions as it’s me and was it them? are incorrect, because
the verb to be cannot take the accusative: the correct expressions are it’s I and
was it they? But general usage has led to their acceptance, and even to gentle
ridicule of the correct version."
B. A. Phythian, A Concise Dictionary of Correct English (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1979).
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Has much changed since 1979?
"Such common expressions as it’s me and was it them? are incorrect, because
the verb to be cannot take the accusative: the correct expressions are it’s I and
was it they? But general usage has led to their acceptance, and even to gentle
ridicule of the correct version."
B. A. Phythian, A Concise Dictionary of Correct English (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1979).
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