Can a verb agree with "me"

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He is just like me who hate/hates learning.

Hate should agree with who in the relative clause right? But who is me. Can it agree with the objective noun?

Now...I believe your first choice was correct. "Who" is the subject of the clause "who hates learning," so "hates" is correct. I'm well in the weeds on this one, I'm afraid. So: He is just like me who hates learning. I'll delete my eariler comments to prevent confusion. — P. E. Dant Reinstate Monica, Oct 10 '16 at 21:56
Native speaker logic: If I change it to "It is I who hates learning," then "hates" sounds much better than "hate" to my ear. — Kevin, Oct 10 '16 at 22:56
@Kevin In It is I who hates learning, "hates" is correct. The pronoun who is still the subject of the clause who hates learning, and takes the third person singular form of the verb. — P. E. Dant Reinstate Monica, Oct 11 '16 at 01:05
Related: http://ell.stackexchange.com/questions/68966/it-was-me-or-it-was-i — Damkerng T., Oct 11 '16 at 01:17
@DamkerngT. Related to comments, but not to the question, which asks about the form of the verb in the second clause, and not about the pronoun. It could not be who hate learning unless the referent of who is plural, e.g.: They are just like us/we who hate learning. — P. E. Dant Reinstate Monica, Oct 11 '16 at 01:58

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 15 '16 at 14:03

Either way, this is wrong - people do not use "like me who" after a copula. Searching for "is like me who" in Google yields zero results.

You can find "like me who" after nouns, as in

... often with a comma separating the "who" clause.

As you can see, in this quite common pattern, the verb agrees with the initial noun, and not necessarily with "me".

score -1 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 15 '16 at 14:08

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It should just be:

"He is just like me, he hates learning."

answered Oct 15 '16 at 14:08

Tom B

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A better answer would include a clear explanation. :) – shin Oct 15 '16 at 14:22
Please [edit] to include an explanation of why this is correct; answers without explanation do not teach the patterns of the language well. – ColleenV Oct 15 '16 at 21:36

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