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Anonymous Posted 14 years ago
Grammar

When can I leave out "who"?

One example I can think of right now: "It's you (who) it's affecting."
In case it's not possible, what would be the meaning of the sentence?

Thank you.
  

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Hi, Who - is a pronoun in the English language used to form relative clause. It has a linguistic function and we can't and shouldn't put it in a sentence or leave it out arbitrarily. " This has no relative meaning as stand.

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  • Hi, Who - is a pronoun in the English language used to form relative clause.
  • It has a linguistic function and we can't and shouldn't put it in a sentence or leave it out arbitrarily.
  • " This has no relative meaning as stand.
  • Maybe: It's is you who lost the laptop containing the crucial documents, not me.
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Hi,
Who - is a pronoun in the English language used to form relative clause. It has a linguistic function and we can't and shouldn't put it in a sentence or leave it out arbitrarily. You may want to visit this link :
http://www.sil.org/linguistics/GlossaryOfLinguistic
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Affect isn't often used in the continuous tenses. You can study the omission of relative pronouns

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