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I would answer “This is she.” But I couldn’t for the life of me explain why. Why did I use the subject form, “she,” for a pronoun in a spot that seemed to call for the object form ...
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letters in The Wall Street Journal teaching Joseph Epstein, grammar in schools, Gwynne “Gwynne’s Grammar” Steven Pinker “The Sense of Style,” ...
The sentence supposedly violated grammatical agreement (sometimes called subject-verb agreement). Because scenes is a plural noun, the reasoning runs, the verb in the sentence should be plural, too.