Though I was able to defend a case for who's whom based on parallelism, others insist on the correctness of who's who.
I accept that the latter form is fine, based on the analogy of Who is he?. Even so we can find a place for both Who am I? and Who is me, as in "The 'who' you are talking about is me."
Though the form Who is he? is accepted, I suggest it harks back to Elizabethan English, when use of he was routine for the passive object of a sentence.
Consider, Let he who is without sin cast the first stone. But, these days, we should say, Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.
Though the form Who is he? is accepted, I suggest it harks back to Elizabethan English, when use of he was routine for the passive object of a sentence.
Consider, Let he who is without sin cast the first stone. But, these days, we should say, Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.
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