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It is me who won the first prize last year.
It is I who won the first prize last year.
thank you in advance
It is I who won the first prize last year.
thank you in advance
It is me who won the first prize last year.
It is I who won the first prize last year.
thank you in advance
Grammatically speaking and taking purism into consideration, I state that the correct sentence is the second one.
Who won the first prize last year?
I won the first prize last year.
It is I who won the first prize last year.
Compare this:
Who(m) did you beat in the competition last week?
I beat Marcus/him in the competition last week.
It was Marcus/him (NOT he) that I beat in the competition last week.
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I completely agree with you:-D here (and I like you explanation) although I bet there ate many natives who say
it is me who won the prize last year.
Yes, but my question is whether it is okay to use a past form of the verb in the who-clause and a present form of the verb to be in the main clause?
It is I who won...
or
It was I who won...
(I'm talking about the parallelism between the tenses used).
:-?
Both forms seem correct![]()
You may be right, but a few years ago I was asked a question of the same kind by one of my pupils and couldn't answer it. It so happens that ever since I have not been able to give an answer to the question myself. That pupil had been told by his teacher that it was wrong to use two different tenses in this type of sentence. :shock:
"it is the girl I invited......"
I would not considered you wrong if you said
"it was the girl I invited...."
In this specific example the past tense we use telling the story has to be consistent as all the events happened in the past
"It was the last time that I had to go there as the doctor took out the stitches".
Yes, I agree with you any more. In general use "is" is OK, but if you want to stress the girl who was the girl in the party last week, you should use "was".Am I right?Funny thing, but it was only a moment ago that I realized that your sentence is a sentence of different type to the sentence in question.
It is the girl (who/whom/that) I invited to the party last week. (identification through relative clause)
It was the girl who/that I invited to the party last week. (and not the boy, for example) = I invited the girl, not the boy, to the party last week. (defining through cleft sentence)
;-)
It is me who won the first prize last year.
It is I who won the first prize last year.
thank you in advance
I agree with you.I've come across this thread quite late in the discussion, and although I would agree that the 2nd sentence is technically correct, I would rather have said: "I am the one who won the first prize last year".
"It is I ..." would only be used, I believe, in prose etc, (as in: "It is I, Romeo ......." etc)not in normal speech.
thank you for your answer. I woul not like any one to get me wrong as it does not bother me if I hear "I am good". Actually I am passionate about English and try to find out as much as possible about it. I also have an impression that Americans tend more to say "I am good" than Brits do.Technically it is a mistake but as RonBee said if majority of speakers used "I am good" then it was good. There is something in it...Hi Folks
I'm a Brit, but not a teacher.
Shalala: Can you please identify whether or not you speak with the authority of a recognised English teacher or not, as per the Site rules.
Hi banderas. Many thanks for your very excellent post.
The only item I would query is the last paragraph.
I would personally never say: "I'm good"
I might say: "I'm well", if I'd recently been ill
I would say:"I'm fine"", whether or not I'd recently been ill.
Regards