Re: USAGE: 2nd pers. pron. for God

=?iso-8859-1?q?bnathyuw?= scripsit:

> i imagine the most british
> rephrasing would be 'the judge ordered the prisoners
> to be placed in detention' where you have to do some
> grammatical gymnastics to avoid taking 'the prisoners'
> as object of 'ordered' .
Perfectly standard AmE as well.  "The prisoners" is of
course the subject of "to be placed", and like all infinitive
subjects is accusative (cp. "The judge ordered them to be placed ...").

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