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Anonymous Posted 16 years ago
Grammar

English Grammar question

Which one is correct?

None but he can help me.
None but him can help me.

Please let me learn it.

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Anonymous None but he can help me. None but him can help me. Hi Anon: In your sentence, the word but is a preposition, meaning except .

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  • Anonymous None but he can help me.
  • None but him can help me.
  • Hi Anon: In your sentence, the word but is a preposition, meaning except .
  • The object case follows the preposition ( him ).
  • The subject is none (no one).
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AnonymousNone but he can help me.
None but him can help me.
Hi Anon:

In your sentence, the word but is a preposition, meaning except. The object case follows the preposition (him). The subject is none (no one).

But is much more often seen as a conjunction, and we naturally expect a clause to follow (s
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