Michelle Cha Posted 12 years ago
Grammar
I know him who is a teacher.
"I know him who is a teacher"
Is this sentence grammatical?
I wonder whether a object pronoun can be a precedent of a relative pronoun.
Is this sentence grammatical?
I wonder whether a object pronoun can be a precedent of a relative pronoun.
Top answer
Michelle Cha I wonder whether a object pronoun can be a precedent an antecedent of a relative pronoun. It can, but it's very rare, and yours isn't a very good example of it. I'd guess that more than 90% of the uses of that grammatical figure are from old religious texts.
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Michelle ChaI wonder whether a object pronoun can beIt can, but it's very rare, and yours isn't a very good example of it.aprecedentan antecedent of a relative pronoun.
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