The AI-generated cat pictures thread
Boost Pope
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I didn't say there was no plot, I said they were shitty movies. And furthermore, I'm ashamed that I didn't burn (with fire) my DVD copies of them before out 4 year old could discover them. He now prefers II and III to ESB and ROTJ, much to my horror.
Boost Czar
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whom seems incorrect in this usage.
The cat--he--is someone you do not wish to trifle.
the whom is referring back to the cat, not you/he.
"I'm not someone who you wish to trifle." or "dont **** with me."
would be better.
The cat--he--is someone you do not wish to trifle.
the whom is referring back to the cat, not you/he.
"I'm not someone who you wish to trifle." or "dont **** with me."
would be better.
Since the structure is "I am not someone," that means that "whom" is referring to the object of the sentence, and is therefore correct.
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Well, it's actually the object of the preposition. "with", hence the objective case.
A reverse case is when you say something like, "He is cross with whoever gets in his way". In that case, "whoever gets" is a noun clause, in which, "whoever" is the subject, "gets" is the verb, respectively of that clause; so use the nominative case, "whoever" instead of "whomever". The clause is the object of the preposition "with" in that instance.
A reverse case is when you say something like, "He is cross with whoever gets in his way". In that case, "whoever gets" is a noun clause, in which, "whoever" is the subject, "gets" is the verb, respectively of that clause; so use the nominative case, "whoever" instead of "whomever". The clause is the object of the preposition "with" in that instance.