Over the Hedge by T Lewis and Michael Fry for May 09, 2016

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    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!

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    aardvarkseyes  over 8 years ago

    Sadly, you have to be invited to a party before you can poop it.

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    QuiteDragon  over 8 years ago

    You have loosen that sphincter a bit, too.

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    juicebruce  over 8 years ago

    Poor Verne being abused again ! ……Tag, not a good game for turtles due to low land speed :-(

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    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.

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    Plods with ...™  over 8 years ago

    Curmudgeon takes too long to say.

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    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

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    dagupster  over 8 years ago

    In context, “it” is a noun, not a pronoun. Sorry to poop on the grammar party.

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    brooklyn51  over 8 years ago

    Tag! You’re HE who is IT!

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    nanellen  over 8 years ago

    brilliant- Brooklyn51

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    seismic-2 Premium Member over 8 years ago

    As Casey Stengel (may have) said, “Whom knows?”

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    wetidlerjr  over 8 years ago

    And it’s “ad nauseam” not “ad nauseum”.

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    danketaz Premium Member over 8 years ago

    …Cause Baby,it’s You.

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    wiatr  over 8 years ago

    That would hurt!

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    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!

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    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).

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    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.

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    Blaize  over 1 year ago

    XD

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