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I was aiming for an onomatopœic effect, of course.... :-)
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I was pleased to read an advertisement from my telephone service provider the other day which asked the question: "Whom do you call?"
I thought, well, good for you! They were not afraid to use proper English!
Hmmm......I'm not sure my friend Whom is ready for extinction quite yet. There are too many people left in the world who still can differentiate between the subject and object of their sentences. So I guess I would tend to disagree with the writer of that grammar book.
Sure, I'll recast a sentence to avoid sounding stilted -- especially in casual speech. But to say that every sentence should be recast??? Mmm...don't think so.
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There are too many people left in the world who still can differentiate between the subject and object of their sentences.
So why do they need a separate word to do it?
Sometimes they even need a separate verb just to tell if it has an object or not.
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"Sometimes they even need a separate verb just to tell if it has an object or not," said Tom accusatively.
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