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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?
@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"....
Is gone, is come are correct but archaic and replaced in modern English by has gone, has come.
See also: the ship is sunk; Christ is risen.
Thank you both for your replies.
@perennialloner,
Yes, it is correct "she is gone".
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