A: "Cablegram for Mr.Smith"
B: "I am him."
B: "I mean, I am he."
Why the correction? What difference does it make?
Similarly: "I am not her" / "I am not she"?
Answer
Him and her are the objective case forms of the pronouns he and she, respectively. The objective case is used nearly exclusively for direct and indirect objects, objects of prepositions, and objective complements. In the sentence I am him, the pronoun is functioning as a predicate nominative, so it must be in the nominative case; hence, it takes its nominative form, he.
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