Which ones are correct?

Question

Hello everyone. It’s about object pronoun and relative clause.

According to you, which ones are gramatically correct?

Let’s think a conversation about racism.

And there is someone from Africa who is mistreated. and he says:

1-) Why do me being born in Africa make you annoyed?

2-) Why does me being born in Africa make you annoyed?

for “me”, which helper verb is better? “am” or “is” ? If it is “am”, first one is correct. Otherwise, second one correct.

3-) Why does my being born in Africa make you annoyed?

4-) I will invite you who are ill.

5-) You should invite me who am/is ill?(Which one?)

Thank you..

GPY · Accepted Answer

Jawel1-) Why do me being born in Africa make you annoyed?
2-) Why does me being born in Africa make you annoyed?
for “me”, which helper verb is better? “am” or “is” ? If it is “am”, first one is correct. Otherwise, second one correct.

(2) is correct, but this has nothing particularly to do with "me". The agreement is with the phrase "me being born", which refers to an occurrence or eventuality, not a person.

Jawel3-) Why does my being born in Africa make you annoyed?

This is also OK (more formal than (2)).

Jawel4-) I will invite you who are ill.
5-) You should invite me who am/is ill?(Which one?)

Sentences like these are not used in everyday modern English. They sound a bit like something out of an old book. In (5), it seems as if "am" ought to agree grammatically with "me", but actually "am" feels extremely strained (or like something out of an even more ancient book). If you had to use the sentence, I would say "is" is the lesser of the evils, but you probably shouldn't be using it at all.

Which ones are correct?

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