Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles $Revision: 1.6.2.17 $; site smu.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!smu!mcdonald From: mcdonald@smu.UUCP Newsgroups: net.nlang Subject: Re: Death for we who deserve it Message-ID: <15900002@smu.UUCP> Date: Sun, 9-Dec-84 23:46:00 EST Article-I.D.: smu.15900002 Posted: Sun Dec 9 23:46:00 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 12-Dec-84 03:42:39 EST References: <275@ho95b.UUCP> Lines: 11 Nf-ID: #R:ho95b:-27500:smu:15900002:000:428 Nf-From: smu!mcdonald Dec 9 22:46:00 1984 I was taught (about 8 years ago) that the first instance in both examples is incorrect -- that it is always (my picking) that is being referred to, and that in a construction like (we/us who) the who takes the case required by the subordinate clause and the we/us takes the case required by the outer clause/phrase. Unfortunately I don't still have the text to refer to. McD