Re: preposition
| From: | Raymond Brown <ray.brown@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, March 19, 2001, 19:16 |
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At 4:39 pm -0500 18/3/01, David Peterson wrote:
>In a message dated 3/18/01 12:20:43 PM, smithma@UCLA.EDU writes:
>
><< "I am a native English speaker whom has never had trouble communicating
>with others". >>
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>Eek. You see? Now no one knows how to use it. Now it's strictly a
>register thing. You use "whom" to mean "who" whenever you want to sound
>fancy. Well, I don't like it!
Nor me.
At 12:31 am -0500 19/3/01, Nik Taylor wrote:
>Raymond Brown wrote:
>> >"From whom", definitely.
>>
[snip]
>
>Well, some people hypercorrect and use "whom" in subject position. I
>can't think of any examples at the moment, but I have heard it a few
>times.
I'm not aware of this particular hypercorrection over here - that, I guess,
is why I was puzzled.
Ray.
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