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Originally Posted by navi tasan Can one use 2 instead of 1, if the context makes it clear that it is a question of the wife and the children's being in danger?
1-"He has to be informed. After all, it is his wife and his children who are in danger."
2-"He has to be informed. After all, it is his wife and his children."
(In other words, can the "who are in danger" be ellipted?) | I'd say so, yes. 
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