To: ThinkDifferent
"Tom's job requires him to travel"
better? = "Tom's job requires that he travel"
38 posted on
05/15/2003 4:29:48 PM PDT by
Mark Felton
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To: Mark Felton
"Tom's job requires him to travel"
better? = "Tom's job requires that he travel" No better. Any grammarians who can't figure out to whom the pronoun "him" refers in the first sentence will be equally clueless about the pronoun "he" in the second.
154 posted on
05/15/2003 11:40:25 PM PDT by
supercat
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