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Anonymous Posted 13 years ago
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I'm having trouble wrapping my head around 'Your wife is who' Is the sequence of words correct?
Your wife is who deserves to be happy. Do what she wants.
  

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That's a good question. That sentence is questionable. " (same as before) Bob: "My wife is who".

— KrisBlueNZ

  • That's a good question.
  • That sentence is questionable.
  • " (same as before) Bob: "My wife is who".
  • " If you look at it this way, you can see that the sentence is a messy extension of an ungrammatical statement.
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That's a good question. That sentence is questionable. It is a contraction of "Your wife is the person who deserves to be happy."

Another way of looking at it would be to consider this progression of questions and answers:

Alan: "Who deserves to be happy?"
Bob: "My wife."

Alan: "Who is the person who deserves to be happy?"
Bob: "My wife; that's who.
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