who
/hu/ pronoun A1- What person or people; which person or people; asks for the identity of someone; used in a direct or indirect question. · You're getting married‽ Who to? (direct question)· I don't know who it is. (indirect question)
- With antecedent as subject. · That's the man who works at the newsagent. (defining)· My sister, who works in the accounts department, just got promoted to manager. (non-defining)
- With antecedent as object: whom. · That's the man who I saw earlier.· My brother, who you met the other day, is coming to stay for the weekend.
- Whoever, he who, they who. · Who dares wins.· Who insults my mother insults me.
- Also used with names of collective nouns that are groups of people, especially singularly-named musical groups or sports teams. · Who are the Miami Heat?
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Morrel, I shall always have the greatest respect for those who possess the owners’ confidence.”
The shipowner, smiling, followed him with his eyes until he saw him spring out on the quay and disappear in the midst of the throng, which from five o’clock in the morning until nine o’clock at night, swarms in the famous street of La Canebière,—a street of which the modern Phocéens are so proud that they say with all the gravity in the world, and with that accent which gives so much character to what is said, “If Paris had La Canebière, Paris would be a second Marseilles.” On turning round the owner saw Danglars behind him, apparently awaiting orders, but in reality also watching the young sailor,—but there was a great difference in the expression of the two men who thus followed the movements of Edmond Dantès.
“If I were sole owner we’d shake hands on it now, my dear Dantès, and call it settled; but I have a partner, and you know the Italian proverb—Chi ha compagno ha padrone—‘He who has a partner has a master.’ But the thing is at least half done, as you have one out of two votes.
“True, Dantès, I forgot that there was at the Catalans someone who expects you no less impatiently than your father—the lovely Mercédès.”
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