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Anonymous Posted 8 years ago
Grammar
Preposition and the relative pronoun(who)
Is it right to say:
I met the man who a stone fell on yesterday.
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"the man who a stone fell on", while grammatically possible, feels rather awkward. It is also ambiguous whether "yesterday" describes when he was hit by the stone or when you met him (or both). Overall, it is not the greatest sentence ever written.
- "the man who a stone fell on", while grammatically possible, feels rather awkward.
- It is also ambiguous whether "yesterday" describes when he was hit by the stone or when you met him (or both).
- Overall, it is not the greatest sentence ever written.
- Formally the relative pronoun should be "whom", but outside of formal written English it is common to use "who" instead.
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"the man who a stone fell on", while grammatically possible, feels rather awkward. It is also ambiguous whether "yesterday" describes when he was hit by the stone or when you met him (or both). Overall, it is not the greatest sentence ever written.
Formally the relative pronoun should be "whom", but outside
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