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- It was he . . . It was him [duplicate] - English Language Usage Stack . . .
So the subject pronoun "he" follows the verb "to be" as follows: It is he This is she speaking It is we who are responsible for the decision to downsize It was he who messed up everything Also, when the word "who" is present and refers to a personal pronoun, such as "he," it takes the verb that agrees with that pronoun Correct: It is I who
- What is he? vs Who is he? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
"What is he?" asks chiefly for a person's nature, position, or occupation, not his name "He's a cop [as opposed to a soldier or fireman, say]" or "He's the commander of the submarine" or "He [Spock] is a Vulcan "
- contractions - Does hes mean both he is and he has? - English . . .
He's angry He's been angry But the third one is incorrect You cannot shorten "he has a house" to "he's a house " You can only shorten "he has got a house" to "he's got a house " [Again, note what @Optimal Cynic claims] More examples: Correct: I have an apple Correct: I have got an apple Correct: I've got an apple Incorrect: I've an apple
- How do you make the possessive form with He and I-style subjects?
That is, you and I, he and I, Billy, Joe, and I can all use the pronoun our in order to describe the possessive If you want to form the more complex possessive to show joint ownership, this site explains: When a sentence indicates joint ownership in a compound construction, the possessive form is attached only to the second noun:
- Is using he for a gender-neutral third-person correct?
Further discussion including specific arguments against 'purportedly sex-neutral he' and 'she' is found on pp 491-495, noting they are often systematically avoided for good reasons, and marking them with the % sign ('grammatical in some dialect(s) only') It also offers further avoidance strategies, including plural and first-person antecedents
- He doesnt vs He dont - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
He doesn't eat meat He don't eat meat And remove the contraction: He does not eat meat He do not eat meat Now we can see very clearly that the latter is grammatically incorrect Whether you should use doesn't or don't depends on whether the subject is singular or plural: He doesn't speak French They don't speak French
- Why is it This is he rather than This is him? [duplicate]
I've been told that "This is he" or "This is she" is correct, while "This is him" or "This is her" is not For example: Caller: Hello, may I speak to Bobby Tables? Bobby: This is he Likewise, "We are we" is correct, but "We are us" is not On the other hand, you would say "I told him" or "I hate him" rather than "I told he" or "I hate he"
- Difference between havent . . . yet and didnt. . . . yet
Wikipedia has a decent article on past tenses that explains a lot of this To summarise: "They didn't start yet" is the negative form of the simple past, "They started "
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