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Anonymous Posted 14 years ago
Grammar

Which is the proper pronoun to use:
No-one except you and they/them will see the final report.
  

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No one except you and them will see the final report. Pronouns that are objects of prepositions should be in the objective.

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  • No one except you and them will see the final report.
  • Pronouns that are objects of prepositions should be in the objective.
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No one except you and them will see the final report.

Pronouns that are objects of prepositions should be in the objective.
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From a strictly grammatical point of view, "them" is correct, but English is flexible and thus "they" would be used by many and I for one don't consider it wrong.

CB
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Cool Breeze… I for one don't consider it wrong.
Then I suppose these are also correct:

He called I last night.
I've had just about enough of they.
Do you want to see a movie with we?

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Aspara GusCool Breeze… I for one don't consider it wrong.Then I suppose these are also correct:He called I last night.I've had just about enough of they.Do you want to see a movie with we?
You can consider them correct if you like. However, I do consider no-one a correct alternate spelling of no one.

CB
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Cool BreezeI do consider no-one a correct alternate spelling of no one
Not in the US of the twenty-first century it isn't. That went out with snuffboxes in my neck of the woods. I mean, you're right, it is a legitimate spelling, but it looks funny here.

The Shorter Oxford 5th edition shows "no-one" as an alternate spelling ("Also no-one"
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Aspara Gus Cool Breeze… I for one don't consider it wrong.
Then I suppose these are also correct:
He called I last night.
I've had just about enough of they.
Do you want to see a movie with we?
This is a gross extrapolation of what CB said.

When you have a compound situation, you know darn well people are "flexible" w
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Grammar GeekWhen you have a compound situation, you know darn well people are "flexible" with the pronoun in a way they are not when there is a single pronoun.
The original question was which was "proper", not what sounds OK to some of us despite the grammar or what is may be permissible in our flexible language. The objective case is proper in the OP's senten
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I don't disagree that "them" is correct, but I do object to AG's gross overstatment based on what CB wrote.
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Grammar GeekWhen you have a compound situation, you know darn well people are "flexible" with the pronoun in a way they are not when there is a single pronoun.
Yes, but this is much more often the case with the pronouns I, me, myself, him, and her.

Him and me are …
between you and I

etc.

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