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Subject: Re: ASCII Art Fart for Sun, Nov 07, '99
Date: 1999/11/10
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On Wed, 10 Nov 1999 15:36:19 +0100, "Christian 'CeeJay' Jensen"
<REMOVEnewsgroup@CeeJay.findhere.com> wrote:

>
>Robert Lieblich <lieblich@erols.com> wrote in message news:38295F2F.6EEA@erols.com...
>> Ool wrote:
>
>> > > You should send this in to whomever maintains the cow archive..
>> >                              ^^^^^^^^
>> > Is that syntactically correct?  Inquiring minds want to know.
> 
>> No.  The word in question is the subject of a dependent clause.  The
>> clause is the object of the preposition "to."  So the clause would be in
>> the objective case if clauses had case.  Pronouns do have case, and the
>> subject of a clause is in the nominative.  So it should be "whoever"?
>
>I stand corrected.
>
>But when _can_ you use "whom" ?

AAAAAHHH!!! The fine points of grammar attack us again!

m�spher.

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