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Publication Date: 2005-May-1
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Who Needs Whom?
Soles, Derek
English Journal, v94 n5 p34 May 2005
Words that are rarely used in spoken English should be expelled or excommunicated from the language. The reasons behind banishing one such word "whom", an English relative pronoun that is used as the object of a preposition or of a verb, and replacing it with "who" are discussed.
Descriptors: English, Form Classes (Languages), Grammar, Diachronic Linguistics, Language Planning, Standard Spoken Usage
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