The answer of "Is that your mother?"
Which answer is correct?? (sounds natural for native people)

"Is that your mother?"

1) Yes, she is.
2) Yes, that is.
3) Yes, it is.
4) None of above

Please give me not only answer, but also explanation...

Question

The answer of "Is that your mother?"
Which answer is correct?? (sounds natural for native people)

"Is that your mother?"

1) Yes, she is.
2) Yes, that is.
3) Yes, it is.
4) None of above

Please give me not only answer, but also explanation...

Answer

For me, the only natural answer is 3

Is that your mother?
Yes, it is.

The 'it' refers to the demonstrative pronoun 'that' , and has nothing to do with the gender of the person referred to.  Is that your teacher? Yes, it is. Is that the President? Yes it is.

But

Is she your mother?
Yes, she is.

In my view, 'Yes, that is' would be a very unnatural way to answer.

Answer

um... I would probably say "Yes, that's my mom", as we used "that" in the question.

Answer

The most natural and correct answer is, number 2. Since we used "that" to refer to your mother we should also use the same word to refer to her again.

If we asked "Is she your mother?" We should use the pronoun "she" to refer to her again. It's the same situation for "it." But it would be rude to refer to a person as "it."

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I would say "Yes, that's her." which is the most natural sounding and is most like #2.
Now that you have drawn attention to something (in this case the person's mother) using "that," you would now refer to her as "she."

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