I've seen this sentence in someone's facebook status but it sounds unnatural to me.
I'm the Rumplestiltskin who spins straw into gold
I thought it should be spin because the subject is I, but I'm not sure. Which one is the subject in this sentence, I or Rumplestiltskin and why?
Answer
The subject of the main clause is I. But then that subject talks about himself in the third person: The Rumplestiltskin who spins straw into gold. Spins agrees with the subject of the relative clause.
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