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,” ...