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Liveinjapan Posted 19 years ago
Grammar

It was she/her

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00I found the line below in the movie callded "Vanilla Sky".02br
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00'It was she who somehow knew you best'02br
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00Is that possible to say 'It was her'?02br
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00What's the intention of using 'she'?0-
  

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12br 12br 12blockquote 10'She' is 01b 00subject02b 00. 02br 02br 00It was 01b 00she (subject02b 00) who knew you best. (She [subject] ...

— Yoong Liat

  • 12br 12br 12blockquote 10'She' is 01b 00subject02b 00.
  • 02br 02br 00It was 01b 00she (subject02b 00) who knew you best.
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01cite10Liveinjapan12cite12br
10'It was she who somehow knew you best'12br
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10Is that possible to say 'It was her'?12br
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10What's the intention of using 'she'?12br
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10'She' is 01b00subject02b00. '01b
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0Hi, Liat.02br
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00When I get 'she' as a subject, It sounds fine to me. 02br
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00Can I also use 'her' grammatically? 02br
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00Or in this case, I shoudn't?0-
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0'It was she who somehow knew you best'02br
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00she = subject complement. Strictly speaking, accusative case (her) is not justifiable here.02br
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00What's the01del00 intention02del00 of using 'she'? -- what is the purpose in using 'she'?02br
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01cite10Liveinjapan12cite12br
10Hi, Liat.12br
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10When I get 'she' as a subject, It sounds fine to me. 12br
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10Can I also use 'her' grammatically? 12br
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10Or in this case, I shoudn't?12br
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10It is I (not 'me
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0Thanks, Liat, Inchoateknowledge.02br
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00Both of your answers are really helpful to me.02br
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00I understand the purpose in using 'she'.02br
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00Best regards.0-
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0 Hi,02br
00I believe that quite a few people would say "It was her who knew you" or sentences like that.02br
00"It was she who..." is what is considered grammatically correct though (and despite being the correct way I don't like such constructions at all, I don't know why).02br
00Just my opinion though, Liveinjapan. 050010id1
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0 I believe you're saying that it doesn't sound nice to your ears. But English is such that sometimes what sounds wrong is correct and vice versa. 0-
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So what's "it" in this sentence?
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She is correct as the subject of the sentence. Turn rhe phrase around. Would you say, " She was it"
or would you say, " her was it "? She is the subject of the object it , connected by the verb was, and is grammatically correct.
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The verb "to be" does not take the accusative.

So whereas most transitive verbs will have a nominative (which is doing the action) and an accusative (which is having the action done to it), this verb, in all its forms, does not have an accusative. This is because the verb is not about action but simply "being". So nothing is done to anyone!

She is the nominative form, her is
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