Re: whoever in Re: alt exhibit
Haha. Thanks, Judy. Crystal clear. If I have similar questions in
future, I now know who to ask. Ah, wait . . .
On Sep 6, 2007, at 2:16 PM, Judy Seigel wrote:
On Wed, 5 Sep 2007, Diana Bloomfield wrote:
Wait. Maybe that would be thanks to who ever did that, not whom
ever. Is it whom or who? I think the correct use is who. Not
sure, but thanks anyway.
Diana, by my reading, your instincts correct, tho a change of
detail might make it clearer.
In this usage it would be one word: "whomever," or "whoever," and
although (in the New York Times for instance) we find it wrong as
often as right, if not more often, my reading is that.....
... "whoever" is the subject of the prepositional phrase, that is
the phrase says "whoever did that" and the thanks go to them. The
entire phrase is therfore the object of the preposition "to," but
the word "whoever" remains its subject. (Which I can visualize
because when we diagramed (sp?) sentences in the 8th grade, the
prepositional phrase had a line of its own descending from the main
sentence diagram by way of the preposition).
So "whoever" is indeed correct, but lotsaluck.
Examples of "whom" might be "To whom do I owe thanks?" And there's
the famous New Yorker cartoon -- a hand is holding a telephone
receiver out of which we see the words "whom shall I say is
calling?" emerge. That of course is wrong. One might correctly
answer, "Whoever you say is calling, I'm busy."
Is that perfectly clear?
Judy
On Sep 5, 2007, at 7:43 PM, Daniel Williams wrote:
zphoto@montana.net wrote:
Hi all, There are a number of people on this list in this show--I
was offlist for a bit while at Penland and don't know if
someone announced it, but here is the link that shows the
exhibit.
Chris
http://www.c4fap.org/exhibitions/2007Alternative/index.htm
I see the page has now been altered to show the process used.
Dan Williams
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