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She is gone??????

 
 
Reply Thu 8 Sep, 2016 08:33 pm
Is "she is gone" grammatically correct? as opposed to the I suppose more formal "she has gone"?

I hear it all the time, and some places I've looked at online say it is routine/grammatical.

If it is correct, does one convey something different from the other?
 
CalamityJane
 
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Reply Thu 8 Sep, 2016 10:13 pm
@perennialloner,
Usually you can say "she is gone" without direction, implying she's gone away, is dead.
"She has gone" is commonly used with a direction as in "she has gone home" or "she has gone to the airport"....
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contrex
 
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Reply Fri 9 Sep, 2016 09:15 am
Is gone, is come are correct but archaic and replaced in modern English by has gone, has come.
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contrex
 
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Reply Fri 9 Sep, 2016 04:28 pm
See also: the ship is sunk; Christ is risen.
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perennialloner
 
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Reply Fri 9 Sep, 2016 08:02 pm
Thank you both for your replies.
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