He will be yelled at by we who hate him.
He will be yelled at by us who hate him.
After by you use us, but in this case I'm confused. Which one of these sentences is correct?
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2The structure has no elegant solution.– Yosef BaskinCommented May 14 at 13:28
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Both the objective (after the preposition) and the subjective (for we who hate him) are required. A solution (really an accepted fudge) is to use case-masking 'those' / 'the people' / 'all' / 'those of us'. But a complete rephrasing is arguably better: 'We hate him;/ and we will yell at him.'– Edwin AshworthCommented May 14 at 14:05
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1@Lambie The original might (admittedly clumsily) equate 'we/us' and the haters, whereas 'those of us who hate him' is partitive. Then only the rewrite I give last (of those offered so far) is accurate.– Edwin AshworthCommented May 14 at 15:14
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The structure has a solution which is elegant and idiomatic: "by us". The "who" is correctly "who" because it is the subject of "hate". That is sufficient justification for "who"; no more is needed. In particular, the word "who" doesn't entail changing the "us" to "we". This answer shows an analogous construction.– Rosie FCommented May 15 at 4:14
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