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Originally Posted by Snaqwells
Go to your link again, and read carefully.
You can shoot whoever is wrong. ("whoever" is the subject of the clause that serves as the object.)
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You can shoot whomever you find to be wrong. ("whomever" is the object of the clause that serves as the object.)
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Ok, I'm confused. Are you backing me up, or proving me wrong? In NV's statement, "...whoever authored it failed to appreciate the difference...", "whoever" is the object of the clause "whoever authored it", and thus should be "whomever", correct? The main verb of the sentence is "failed", while the clause is the subject.
Should we start an Annual Off-Topic English Thread?