who is...

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who is...

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Let's say I am looking for a certain John Harrison. I know he is in a room that is full of people. I don't know what John Harrison looks like. I enter the room and I tell someone:


a. I want to know who is John Brown.

(i.e. among the people in this room who is John Brown)

b. I want to know who John Brown is.


Which of the sentences (a) or (b) is correct in this context?


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Re: who is...

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(Not really grammar but...) a (although much more naturally: '...which of you is John Brown').
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