2016年1月7日 · 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 ...

2011年6月19日 · 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.

2012年2月23日 · 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.

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.

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".

"He said, she said" has a sense that not only does an interaction look different from the two sides, but of an imbroglio. There are a couple of moments I can think of that are "he said, she said" in the sense of two different experienced incidents for the two sides, but not in the sense of a nasty conflict where it is tangled to unravel what ...

2014年6月1日 · Compare to "He as well as she are in the wrong", "Tom as well as Sue are in the wrong". A decent usage dictionary will usually have info related to this topic. For instance, in my copy of the Merriam-Webster's Concise Dictionary of English Usage , it has the entry "as well as" on pages 101-2, where it discusses the coordinator usage of that ...

2010年10月19日 · Not getting into "he himself", there should definitely be a comma after because: "unless he himself wants to turn evil" is interrupting the clause beginning with because – Kosmonaut Commented Oct 19, 2010 at 22:33

Plato quitted Athens, where he was adored as a god ... I quitted Manchester, I quitted Mrs. +++++, I quitted +++++ hall ..... you have not quitted the path of virtue ... Although this usage seems to have declined markedly. This can be seen in …

2015年1月5日 · To say "he can speak English well, but doesn't understand it at all" does not make any sense, since "speaking English" implies an facility with the language. However you could say "he can speak in English well, but he can't understand it" is semantically acceptable, since speaking is different than understanding.