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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 (Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.)
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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 (TAG--you're it!)
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