That's me / I am she ????

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When I was about 8 years old I said, "That's them." My school-teacher great aunt said, "No, THOSE are THEY." So, help, please. If I were showing someone a photograph of myself 40 years ago, and was tempted to say, "That's me, all those years ago", what should I say to be correct, along the same lines as the 'those are they' way?

Yes, I should have stayed with the subjunctive and said 'if I WERE tempted'.

In the example that is me/I am she, the latter is correct. A subject pronoun follows a linking verb. However, those are they (and, to an extent, I am she) sounds very much like 40 years ago (or Hyacinth Bucket) and quite clunky/stuffy, language evolves I suppose.

You'd use normal spoken English and say 'that's me'.

I don't believe I've ever heard anyone IRL say 'those are they'.

‘That is I’ is correct, but sounds hilariously stilted, like the villain announcing himself in a 19thc melodrama: ‘It is I, evil Count Dastardly, come to tie you to the train tracks!’ Cue evil cackle etc.

But yes, that is what you would say.