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To: TigerClaws
whom avoids hospitals like the plague

Just a nerdy English usage insert. Not "whom"..."who."

It's a parenthetical phrase "she avoids hospitals like the plague"...she translates to "who" not "whom" in usage.

I say this not to complain or pick nits but just to lay out my idea of correct usage for Freeper language fanatics like myself.

10 posted on 09/12/2016 4:37:54 PM PDT by RoosterRedux (Einstein: I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity)
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To: RoosterRedux

She might be infused with some truth serum.
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13 posted on 09/12/2016 4:41:08 PM PDT by RightLady (God Bless the USA)
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To: RoosterRedux; TigerClaws

“Who” is the correct word because it’s the subject of the verb, not the object. The subject being in a parenthetical phrase has nothing to do with the pronoun.


34 posted on 09/12/2016 5:17:46 PM PDT by opus1 (This is all getting rather confusing.)
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To: RoosterRedux; TigerClaws

- 10 Points = 90% = A- on your post TP

Good job!


41 posted on 09/12/2016 5:44:41 PM PDT by thinden
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To: RoosterRedux
"who whom" - Vladimir Lenin's famous description of politics.

Stalin explained it a few years later:

"The fact is, we live according to Lenin's formula: Kto-Kovo?: will we knock them, the capitalists, flat and give them (as Lenin expresses it) the final, decisive battle, or will they knock us flat? ".

"Who, whom?"

Indeed.

73 posted on 09/13/2016 1:26:10 PM PDT by Jack Black (Dispossession is an obliteration of memory, of place, and of identity)
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