Taken from the free online dictionary As f today, she doesn`t work there. In a 1989 article from the los angeles times, for instance, writer dan sullivan notes, what's wrong with reinventing the wheel?
In short, she/they is the most common way for a person to indicate that they go by she/her or they/them pronouns, likely with a preference for the former The phrase dates back to at least 1928, according to the wikipedia article, as it was a common saying of the character simon templar of the saint mystery novels, the first of which was published in that year. If the pronoun is seen as a clause reduced to a single element, the choice depends on style
But informal style has accusative me (though the verb cannot be added) You could avoid the choice altogether by retaining a verb He looked the same as she did/does The difference is that she's and similar shortened forms are used in colloquial speech, but not in certain cases
In your example, she is being emphasised. So my question is should she has be contracted as she 's in the above example like in the examples found from google ngram to avoid confusion Google ngram hasn't been exactly consistent about this, sometimes using she 's to refer to she is and she has. Upon answering the telephone, the person calling asks if joan is available
The at is redundant It is not needed because the questions could be more concisely put as where is she/he? This redundancy, and the efforts of seventeenth and eighteenth century grammarians to align english with latin, lead some people to say it is ungrammatical to end with at . She was in on the drama when the conman showed up at the stage door
If you are an actor in something, it's in She was in cat on a hot tin roof She was in the movie cat on a hot tin roof She was in several west end plays
That's what she said seems to be a simplification of the phrase said the actress to the bishop, used with similar implications
