Over the Hedge by T Lewis and Michael Fry for May 09, 2016
Transcript:
hammy: tag! you're it! Verne: not "it".."it" is an indefinite pronoun....i'm definitely a male turtle. I'm a he. hammy: tag! you're he! verne: Poor grammar. it's properly "tag! you're him." hammy: tag! you're a party pooper!! verne: I have never pooped a party in my life!
awgiedawgie Premium Member over 8 years ago
Sorry, Verne, but his grammar was correct. “Tag! You’re him.” is improper. And you ARE a party pooper!
aardvarkseyes over 8 years ago
Sadly, you have to be invited to a party before you can poop it.
QuiteDragon over 8 years ago
You have loosen that sphincter a bit, too.
juicebruce over 8 years ago
Poor Verne being abused again ! ……Tag, not a good game for turtles due to low land speed :-(
Kathleen Bachus over 8 years ago
I love Verne, but he is incorrect. A predicate nominative of the verb to be requires a nominative pronoun. You are he is correct. You are him is very much incorrect. Now you see why I feel such a kinship with Verne.
Plods with ...™ over 8 years ago
Curmudgeon takes too long to say.
Robert J Moriyama Premium Member over 8 years ago
Actually, “Tag! You’re he!” IS correct, in the same way that “It is I” is correct. The verb “To be” (is, am, are, etc.) does not work the same way as, say, “To tag”.
Signed, The Tree That Knows Stuff
dagupster over 8 years ago
In context, “it” is a noun, not a pronoun. Sorry to poop on the grammar party.
brooklyn51 over 8 years ago
Tag! You’re HE who is IT!
nanellen over 8 years ago
brilliant- Brooklyn51
seismic-2 Premium Member over 8 years ago
As Casey Stengel (may have) said, “Whom knows?”
wetidlerjr over 8 years ago
And it’s “ad nauseam” not “ad nauseum”.
danketaz Premium Member over 8 years ago
…Cause Baby,it’s You.
wiatr over 8 years ago
That would hurt!
bunny-hugger Premium Member over 8 years ago
I came here just to point out that it’s a predicate nominative so “he” is correct, and was relieved to see several people got there first!
pschearer Premium Member over 8 years ago
Come on, folks, be honest. When someone asks you “Who’s there?” are you gonna say “It is I” or are you gonna say “It’s me”? Be honest now.
As English evolves, the tendency is for the nominative in the predicate to change to objective (actually the dative after English lost the separate accusative).
Kathleen Bachus over 8 years ago
My third grade teacher would have rapped my knuckles with a ruler if I had suggested that dialect can overcome logic. No matter how many times I say “it’s me,” it will not be correct, no matter how much my ear prefers it. In order to fully evolve into correctness, the practice will need to overcome the logical problem of giving an intransitive verb an object.
Blaize over 1 year ago
XD