English Language & Usage Asked by Mira on November 27, 2020
Is it correct to say: “You are the one who’s saying that he can’t understand what he wrote, therefore I can’t help you.”? How understandable it is? A friend and I were arguing about this.
In that sentence "he" refers to "the one". "You" are the noun-phrase beginning "one..." and ending " ...what he wrote". You could replace that noun phrase with a single noun, such as "fool" as in: "You are the fool, therefore I can't help you".
It is perfectly grammatical, therefore.
If you need to ask whether it is understandable, then maybe it isn't; what is understandable is in the mind of the reader, not of the writer. It is certainly a convoluted way of expressing a simple, if insulting, thought.
Answered by JeremyC on November 27, 2020
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