Timeline for Is "Whom" a deprecated word?
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| Aug 31, 2015 at 2:48 | comment | added | Max O'Lydian | @sheß Yes, it's not perfect. You'd need to rearrange the original sentence somewhat. Some would say it needs rearranging anyway, since it ends with a preposition, but that's another matter. Rearrange to: the girl with whom you've been dancing, then substitute- "the girl, with her you have been dancing" is preferable to "with she you have been dancing". | |
| Aug 30, 2015 at 22:11 | comment | added | sheß | How does the he/him or she/her trick work in "the girl whom you’ve been dancing with"? | |
| Aug 30, 2015 at 11:39 | comment | added | Max O'Lydian | @JohnPeyton whoops yep you are correct! They are pronouns. | |
| Aug 30, 2015 at 1:40 | comment | added | Micah Walter | No, they are not nouns, they are pronouns. And "determining which form is correct" only makes sense in the context of what actual native speakers currently do. Otherwise, it's the equivalent of insisting on ye vs. you. | |
| Aug 29, 2015 at 19:06 | comment | added | Dan Henderson | +1 both for the he/him substitution method to clearly define proper usage (I think this method is universally correct; I can't think of any example sentence that would disobey this rule), and for pointing out explicitly that using either word exclusively would be incorrect. If I could vote up twice... | |
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| Aug 29, 2015 at 14:00 | history | answered | Max O'Lydian | CC BY-SA 3.0 |