I bet I'm not the first person ________ that you have a wonderful singing voice.
Could you please tell me why the right answer is ‘to tell you’ not ‘who tells you’
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Re: Grammar
Why is "who tells you " not English in this context?
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Re: Grammar
The correct answer (looking at you @Safari), is 'person' is a generic description and is thus treated as an object.
Therefore, the correct answer is "I bet I'm not the first person that tells you that you have a wonderful singing voice."
Therefore, the correct answer is "I bet I'm not the first person that tells you that you have a wonderful singing voice."
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Re: Grammar
Idiomatically we would say:
I bet I'm not the first person to tell you that you have a wonderful singing voice.
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