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"the company which has ..." and "the companies which have ..." are correct.

the pronoun in similar constructions don't behave as the subject

Don't know what you mean here.

Thanks CalifJim for the reply. Let us take another example.

3. The man who was wearing a black suit.......

4. The men who were wearing black suites ......

In the above sentences, the pronouns have nothing to do with the subject. This is my understanding.

I don't find any pronoun.

a pronoun is like 'this', 'that', 'she', 'he', etc.

"Who" is a relative pronoun, and it has everything to do with the subject (man/men), since it replaces them

BTW, it

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There are two words and they are 'suit' and 'suite' . I am familiar with the both words.

I thought the plural form should always be 'suites'.

Are you sure on this point?

What a man sometimes wears is a suit, plur. "suits".

You can have a "suite" (plur. suites) in a hotel, it's a kind of small flat.

So the subject in the first sentence is man and the second sentence it is men.

This is my understanding. Please correct me if I am wrong.

Thank you for your correction:-)

Concerning the man and the black suit:

the pronouns have nothing to do with the subject

On the contrary, the pronouns (i.e., "who") have everything to do with the subject; they represent the subject in the relative clause.

The man who was wearing a black suit [was the tallest in the room].
= The man (the man was wearing a black su

Thanks CalifJim for the reply.

So the pronoun 'who' is a subject. It is the subject of the relative clause.

If you look at the entire sentences, the subject is 'The man' in the first sentence and 'The men' in the second sentence. Please tell me if I am wrong.


What would happen if you just insert a comma? I have a hunch that there is a shift in the meaning