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Originally Posted by tdol It will work with a definite article.
If you change it to the first person, would you say 'It's me who' or 'it's I who'. Some argue that the second is correct because 'be' can't take an object, but 99.99% say 'it's me'. Here it is clearer which verb to use:
It's me who's been ....  |
Thank you very much.
I know that some argue that the second variant is correct and as far as I remember I've seen in some text book that it was the only correct variant to choose but then I read in another book (or someone explained it to me) that both variants were equally correct (for informal situations, at least).
I've got another question. Is the verb 'dismiss' considered to be formal in such context?
-The teacher dismissed the class early because she had a meeting.
The sentence is taken from the Cambridge Dictionary at dictionary.cambridge.org. Although they write whether a word has a particular register there I would like to get the answer from a 'real' native speaker
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