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Neither. As you well know!
A) That's not the sentence I was asking you about. It was the "I see no need to start looking for different meanings in a sentence to justify a particular grammatical interpretation of it, I'm afraid" one. And you don't need to be afraid. You've met me FtF and you know I'm harmless, mostly.
2) By artificially limiting the PP in He is one of the men who does/do the work. to of the men you limit the meaning of the sentence. If the PP is of the men who does/do the work then you open it back up for the other interpretation.
Thorn (and if you still *need a reason to dislike Macs, the lack of the ability to get a thorn is a classic example of ril*)) I *still don't know what poking the borax means.
*res ips(e,a) loquitur
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