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WHO or WHOM? A 90% Trick
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| bannie
Posted on 04/30/2003 6:15:29 PM PDT by bannie
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To: CharacterCounts
No. But I know the code for the Great lakes: HOMES. Every Good Boy Deserves Favour.
Bad Boys Rape Our Young Girls But Violet Goes Willingly.
J JASON DJ FM AM
That is all.
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posted on
04/30/2003 7:00:57 PM PDT
by
Erasmus
To: bannie
WHO = SUBJECTIVE
WHOM = OBJECTIVE Subject = the "doer." Object = the "do-ee."
So, let me get this straight.
When referring to Monica Lewinski we should use "WHO" and when referring to Bill Clinton we should use "WHOM"?
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posted on
04/30/2003 7:01:12 PM PDT
by
Polybius
To: willieroe
Its great to see this information on it's own thread. :-)Yes, it's great to see this information on its own thread. : )
Ahem. : )
I wish to take this opportunity to remind people that there is no such word as "publically". (The word is "publicly".)
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posted on
04/30/2003 7:01:59 PM PDT
by
DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet
("There was abuse in my family; it was mostly musical in nature.")
To: doug from upland
To that which shall be named as the most affected.
To: T'wit
Louie Anderson.
To: gcruse
confusion of 'him and me' vs 'he and I.' You have hit upon one of my pet peeves. Most of us, when we were growing up, were constantly corrected by parents and teachers to say "Joe and I" rather than "Joe and me". As adults, even people in the media say things like: "That was a surprise to Joe and I." (For those who never figured it out, remove "Joe and", and then see how it sounds: "That was a real surprise to I." Who talks like that?)
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posted on
04/30/2003 7:04:15 PM PDT
by
Rocky
To: Thinkin' Gal
Now, Thinkin', that's muddying the waters with the indirect objective case, which maps completely onto the objective case in English, but not in German. (i.e., Dative <> Accusative).
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posted on
04/30/2003 7:04:18 PM PDT
by
Erasmus
To: Senator Pardek
I remember a very early self-service gasoline chain in the Dip Suth named "HEP-UR-SEF."
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posted on
04/30/2003 7:04:42 PM PDT
by
T'wit
To: not_apathetic_anymore
I never could keep that one straight. You're not alone.
49
posted on
04/30/2003 7:04:59 PM PDT
by
DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet
("There was abuse in my family; it was mostly musical in nature.")
To: bannie
Recently I have noticed some very good writers using "who" where "whom" should be according to the usual rules. Just yesterday Christopher Hitchens wrote something like (can't find the link) "he saw the fellow who he gave the money to" rather than "he saw the fellow to whom he gave the money."
Lots of people would like to see "whom" go the way of the dinosaurs, I think, and recently it seems editors are looking for ways to restrict usage of the word.
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posted on
04/30/2003 7:05:33 PM PDT
by
beckett
To: CharacterCounts
Rework the questions. 'Do you trust him" or 'Do you trust he'.
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posted on
04/30/2003 7:07:21 PM PDT
by
plusone
To: aruanan
Isn't that supposed to be I before E except after C? I was quoting Yankeedame there for another (characteristically inane) purpose, but yeah.
I once wrote a Snobol program which corrected text based on the rule "I before E except after C or when spoken as A as in neighbor, sleigh, aweigh, inveigh, ...."
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posted on
04/30/2003 7:09:39 PM PDT
by
Erasmus
To: CharacterCounts
Restructure your sentence to rephrase the question or make a statement. For example: Do you trust he? or Do you trust him?
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posted on
04/30/2003 7:10:10 PM PDT
by
Emily RN
To: T'wit
I remember that place. There was restaurant in back with a sign you could see from the highway that said, "Eat here and get gas."
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posted on
04/30/2003 7:10:49 PM PDT
by
Rocky
To: bannie
A quick quiz:
"There are a lot" or "There is a lot"?
The Wall Street Journal editor seems to think the former (yesterday's WSJ.) And so, to be consistent, should we be saying "there is many"? Heck, I can do as well (as good?) Can I have a glamourous editor job too also?
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posted on
04/30/2003 7:10:49 PM PDT
by
Revolting cat!
(Subvert the conspiracy of inanimate objects!)
To: Erasmus
Bad Boys Rape Our Young Girls But Violet Gives Willingly.
That's the mnemonic to recall the standard Resistor Code in electronics - black, brown, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet, gray, white. Kinda neat, huh.
To: Senator Pardek
Who do they remind you of? That's a tricky one, but you nailed it! "Who" is doing the "reminding", not "you".
I disagree, "whom" goes with "them" and "him". "They remind you of whom? They remind you of him?"
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posted on
04/30/2003 7:13:21 PM PDT
by
Anamensis
(Ithaca, Hollywood... America is like an oreo cookie; the good stuff's in the middle.)
To: Freedom4US
Yeah,neat, but move to another country speaking a different language and you'll be blowing their fuses!
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posted on
04/30/2003 7:13:48 PM PDT
by
Revolting cat!
(Subvert the conspiracy of inanimate objects!)
To: T'wit
I remember a very early self-service gasoline
chain in the Dip Suth named "HEP-UR-SEF."
I remember driving past a house with attached garden patch in
North Carolina with a sign out front saying 'garden fresh pickles.'
Do they water the cucumbers with vinegar, you think?
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posted on
04/30/2003 7:13:49 PM PDT
by
gcruse
To: Conservativegreatgrandma
I learned it this way:
My Very Educated Mother Just Showed Us Nine Planets.
BTW...does anybody else remember ROY G. BIV and Chief SohCahToa?
Regards,
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