[JA] Grammar Counts!
- From: "Roland Stiner" <nk2u@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <juno_accmail@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2001 14:56:18 -0400
> Incidentally, I have a grammatical nicety to offer. I noted a posting
> that said "... to whomever ..." which is, taken by itself, correct.
> However, "whomever" was the subject of a verb and ought to have been
> "whoever." (My twelfth-grade English teacher was quite emphatic that a
> word cannot be both subject and object simultaneously.) I observe that
> there are a bunch of pretty literate people on this list, and perhaps
> this note will be profitable.
Good thing to know, always nice to learn something new.
Roland Stiner, NK2U
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