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Michelle Cha Posted 11 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.
  

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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.

— CalifJim

  • 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.
  • I heal him who was born blind, and the leper, and I raise the dead, by ***'s leave.
  • Such is the admonition given to him who believes in Allah and the Last Day.
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Michelle ChaI 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.
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