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Subject:DELAYED MESSAGES (was Re: Who or Whom?) From:"Wilcox, John (WWC, Contractor)" <wilcoxj -at- WDNI -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 12 Feb 1998 10:28:00 -0800
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From: Wilcox, John (WWC, Contractor)
To: TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
Subject: Re: Who or Whom?
Date: Wednesday, February 11, 1998 11:47AM
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From: Tammy Sudol
Can anyone give me the basic rules on when to use whom instead of who?
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Who knows? It depends on the person to whom you are talking.
(One's the subject, one's the object.)
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Oh, great! 22.5 hours to get a message posted! How timely! I wrote
that response immediately after receiving the original post. Sheesh.