Instead, the object of the verb “know” is a whole clause, “he will prevail.” That’s why this sentence uses the subject form in “he.” Without “will prevail” it would be different.

In this paper I discuss subject and object ellipsis from the second of two linked predications, where predication is meant as a cover term for both finite clauses and infinite verbal formations. Two ...

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A 1998 edition of the Websters New World Dictionary. Matching subject and verb when inverting statements into questions can get complicated, writes June Casagrande.