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Is this grammatical? "You are who I love."

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00:00 Is This Grammatical? &Quot;You Are Who I Love.&Quot;
00:47 Accepted Answer Score 3
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The original is probably eliding a word.

I think this works:

You are she whom I love.

'are' is a linking verb here; 'whom' is introducing an appositive phrase and is the object of 'love'. What's missing in the original is the predicate pronoun ('she', 'he', etc.).