强调主语时,人称代词可以用宾格形式

 

黄卫峰教授著“《美国文学教程》中的若干语法表达问题(03)(英语语法网www.yygrammar.com/Article/200905/1216.html)

It was him who introduced the familiar essay from Europe to America.(86页第26-27)

问题:这是一个强调句,被强调成分为句中主语,因此应将宾格him改为主格he

实际上,在目前的英语中,强调主语时,人称代词可以用宾格形式,请看例证:

1. 徐广联主编《大学英语语法讲座与测试》(华东理工大学出版社20032月第2)p815

I suppose it is me who is responsible.

2. [] 绵贯阳等著《现代英语语法例解手册》(修订版))(申勇译 科学出版社20062月第1)p171

It is he that is responsible. (是他有责任。)

*在通俗说法中,he有时用him表示。

3. 薄冰编著《高级英语语法》(最新修订)(世界知识出版社 200210 月第8次印刷)p569

下面两种说法中的she her都可以用,但后一种只用在非正式问题中。

It was she who gave the signal. 是她给了信号。

It was her who gave the signal.

3. 黄国文著《英语语法结构的功能分析――强势主位篇》(山西教育出版社 200311月第1)p94

It could have been her that had gotten hooked on drugs. (Collins 1977: 303)

It may have been him who attacked me on the 4 August in Chapeltown.(TV Quick, 29 Oct.