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Re: myself

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From: Glen Ecklund
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 15:28
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connolly@memstvx1.memst.edu writes:

>_Who_ and _whom_ follow a different pattern: they *cannot* be cojoined
>to anything except _what?_ and _which_, and then only rarely.  So the
>forced accusative seen in _Me and him don't like her_ is not paralelled
>by a *Whom and him did that? (= Who(m) did he do that with?)

I disagree.  "He and WHO did that?" sounds correct to me, and I would say it.
Likewise, "You saw her and WHOM?", although I'm not very good about using
"whom" when appropriate.


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