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Anonymous  +  800514 Mon, 29 Jun 09 09:42 AM

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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