To: Anamensis
"They" are doing the reminding, and "they" = "who".
To: Senator Pardek
I understand what you're saying but I'm pretty sure that's not how this one would pan out. There's a preposition there. Where there's a preposition, you get whom, him, them. Apply the old "never end a sentence with a preposition" rule and see what you get.
72 posted on
04/30/2003 7:20:52 PM PDT by
Anamensis
(Ithaca, Hollywood... America is like an oreo cookie; the good stuff's in the middle.)
To: Senator Pardek
Yes, but we're talking about the object of the preposition "of"; "they" is the subject of remind. So it really is "Whom do they remind you of?" If you give in to the arrant nonsense up with which Winston Churchill would not put and recast it as "Of whom do they remind you?" perhaps it is clearer that "whom" is called for. Also, the advice of the original post still holds. English speakers wouldn't say "Do they remind you of I?"
191 posted on
04/30/2003 8:58:10 PM PDT by
jejones
To: Senator Pardek
"They" are doing the reminding, and "they" = "who".Nah... "They" are reminding you of "whom". "Who" may be reminiscent of "them", but ultimately "they" and "who" and "you" are separate but equal remindatory entities under the law, Amen.
Okay, definitely time for a beer... Or five...
296 posted on
05/01/2003 3:25:30 PM PDT by
maxwell
(Well I'm sure I'd feel much worse if I weren't under such heavy sedation...)
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