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I'd like to hear your opinions on the following examples. Please state the difference between them as best you can (in terms of frequency, register, dialect...)
It was he who suggested it. It was him who suggested it.
Number 1 is incorrect. Number 2 is correct and standard thruout the English speaking world.
I disagree. Both are acceptable. The first one sounds a bit more lofty though.
No 1 is correct from a historical context and an ultra prescriptivist perspective.
No 2 was originally incorrect, but has over time become common/standard and is now accepted as a correct form due to universal usage.
I agree; the first sounds grammatical but very formal and practically archaic to me, while the second is quite grammatical and sounds much more like what a normal person would say in Real Life today.
They both sound terribly awkward to me. I would just say, "He was the one who suggested it."
no. 1 is wrong
because we're talking about on the third person and addressing to the person which is himself
The 2nd one is spoken non-standard, many English professors will not accept it in an essay. It's just like saying ''John and me went to a bar''
or ''[Me] likes it''.
-It was him who suggested it.-
It is he to have suggested it. It was he to suggest it. |