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Michelle Cha Posted 9 years ago
Grammar
I think him, who is my sister's teacher, smart.
1. I think him, who is my sister's teacher, smart.
2. He, who is my sister's teacher, bought me a book.
I know the above two sentences are bit awkard. I wanted to ask whether personal pronouns such as 'he, she, I, her, me' can be antecedences of relative pronouns.
If they are, do we have to use non-restrictive clauses after the personal pronoun antecedence?
2. He, who is my sister's teacher, bought me a book.
I know the above two sentences are bit awkard. I wanted to ask whether personal pronouns such as 'he, she, I, her, me' can be antecedences of relative pronouns.
If they are, do we have to use non-restrictive clauses after the personal pronoun antecedence?
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Michelle Cha I wanted to ask whether personal pronouns such as 'he, she, I, her, me' can be anteced ents of relative pronouns. Yes, they can, and the relative clause after a personal pronoun can be restrictive or non-restrictive. However, as you have noticed about your own examples, these are not commonly seen because they can be rather awkward.
- Michelle Cha I wanted to ask whether personal pronouns such as 'he, she, I, her, me' can be anteced ents of relative pronouns.
- Yes, they can, and the relative clause after a personal pronoun can be restrictive or non-restrictive.
- However, as you have noticed about your own examples, these are not commonly seen because they can be rather awkward.
- CJ
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Michelle ChaI wanted to ask whether personal pronouns such as 'he, she, I, her, me' can be antecedents of relative pronouns.Yes, they can, and the relative clause after a personal pronoun can be restrictive or non-restrictive. However, as you have noticed about your own examples, these are not commonly seen because they ca
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CalifJim Michelle ChaI wanted to ask whether personal pronouns such as 'he, she, I, her, me' can be antecedents of relative pronouns.Yes, they can, and the relative clause after a personal pronoun can be restrictive or non-restrictive. However, as you have noticed about your own examples, these are not commonly seen because they can be rather awkward.CJThen a
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Michelle ChaFor example, is "I think him who is my sister smart"Yes, it's grammatical, but of course it is nonsense factually because a man cannot be a sister. And even if you fix that, it is so awkward that it would never be used in any text, and no oneisgrammatical?
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