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Omar Ahmed Posted 6 years ago
Grammar
A perplexing sentence
1. Today we have a very special guest …….. a charity activist from Egypt.
a) who b) who's
I go for 'b'. But I feel that it is incorrect to use the short form 'who's' before a noun. Am I right?
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Omar Ahmed I go for 'b'. Correct. Omar Ahmed But I feel that it is incorrect to use the short form 'who's' before a noun.
- Omar Ahmed I go for 'b'.
- Correct.
- Omar Ahmed But I feel that it is incorrect to use the short form 'who's' before a noun.
- Am I right?
- No.
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Omar AhmedI go for 'b'.
Correct.
Omar AhmedBut I feel that it is incorrect to use the short form 'who's' before a noun. Am I right?
No. It's informal but not wrong. Still, it's formal enough to appear frequently in journalistic settings. There are more than 20,000 instances of it listed on fraze.it, among them t
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