pronouns

It is it, It is we, It is they I think they might be right, but not sure

Okay If, tho we'd say "That's it"

I appreciate you for your answer. I just didn't have free time so I couldn't thank you at once.

It's us, it's them. Contraction more natural and us instead of we and them instead of they.

Quite all right Ifi

Um...

"It" itself of course is a pronoun...and can function as both subjective and objective...

Possibly the other words you are refering to could work as relative pronouns along with "it"...

Person who posted above about contractions being much more natural is 100% correct.

But just to make clear: "It is them" is technically possible because "them" is the objective form of "they"...and by the same logic - "It is we" is NOT possible because "we" is the subjective form - and here "It" is already the subject. The objective form would be "us" of course. Then you have: "It's us!" Which works.

Luke thanks but you're 'way off above in the distance from an old codger like me

We were always taught, back in the day, that the verb "to be" does not take a direct object.
Hence "it is I" was correct, and "it is me" was not.
Time has moved on, and we no longer speak like that, but so far as I know, the rule has not been rescinded.
So "it is we" is not only possible, it is correct.

Have you ever heard anyone say 'it is we?'

I've not. Doesn't what is correct/incorrect take second place to how people actually talk?

http://www.ecenglish.com/learnenglish/lessons/subject-pronoun-or-object-pronoun

Sure. It's more normal to say "it's us", granted.

We got the money.
It is we who are the recipients of this generous gift.

Prince Charles gets it wrong sometimes, and it's his mother's English.

"Thank you all for the friendly welcome given to my wife and I."

Given to me, Chas, to ME.

I think in your example you'd still say it is us.

Have you ever heard anyone say it is we? I never have, never. I know certain ways of talking are deliberately anti grammatical like 'we was robbed,' but 'it is we' doesn't even fall into that category.

My old English teacher, Curly Campbell (he was bald) would beat you black and blue.

Did he always resort to violence?

As the country boys say, "Who don't care is me."

It is we who must take responsibility for allowing stupid answers to go unchallenged .

No, reasoned argument is best.
But sometimes the young mind has to be focussed by external agency.

You're crackin' me up, Boss.

We got the money.

Here "we" is the subject...so, yes it is correct. "We" is a subjective pronoun.

It is we who are the recipients of this generous gift.

In this sentence...I think "we" is functioning as a nominative plural of "I". Just changing it to the singular can show that: "It is I who am the recpient of this generous gift". (although it is still sounds strange because it is a passive sentence)

I think there is more than meets the eye to this "us/we" thing...it is difficult not to confuse the subjective with the objective and the singular "I" with plural "we"...

But it can't be denied that in this example the use of we is wrong:

A: Who ate all the cookies?
B & C: Sorry! It was us!

B & C couldn't say: "Sorry! It was we!"

And that has nothing to do with older ways of teaching grammar etc.