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Anonymous Posted 19 years ago
Grammar

"That girl is she"

Hi folks,

I was refreshing my grammer skills and ran into the following sentence, which the author claimed to be correct.
"That girl is she"

but I think

"That girl is her"

sounds better.

I also have an uneasy feeling about

"We wished we were they."

don't you think

"We wished we were them."

sounds better?

Please comment.

Thanks.
  

Top answer

, in those positions, but many recent discussions of the topic say that "her", "them", etc. are the proper forms after a linking verb. CJ

— CalifJim

  • , in those positions, but many recent discussions of the topic say that "her", "them", etc.
  • are the proper forms after a linking verb.
  • CJ
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Older, prescriptive grammars will insist on "she", "they", etc., in those positions, but many recent discussions of the topic say that "her", "them", etc. are the proper forms after a linking verb.

CJ
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Anonymous"That girl is she"
Isn't this just an invertion of "she is that girl"?
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