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Anonymous Posted 18 years ago
Grammar

about "wonder"

Everyone were wondering who that remrak was aimed at.

Everyone were wondering that remrak was aimed at whom.

Do those two sentences share the same meaning?

If so, can someone explain why the relative pronound (who) is the back?

THANKS!!

  

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Everyone were wondering who that remrak was aimed at. Everyone were wondering that remrak was aimed at whom. Everyone was wondering who (whom) that remark was aimed at.

— Yoong Liat

  • Everyone were wondering who that remrak was aimed at.
  • Everyone were wondering that remrak was aimed at whom.
  • Everyone was wondering who (whom) that remark was aimed at.
  • Everyone was wondering at whom that remark was aimed.
  • The usual practice is not to put 'whom' at the end of the sentence.
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Everyone were wondering who that remrak was aimed at.

Everyone were wondering that remrak was aimed at whom.


Everyone was wondering who (whom) that remark was aimed at.

Everyone was wondering at whom that remark was aimed.

The usual practice is not to put 'whom' at the end of the sentence
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Everyone was wondering who (whom) that remark was aimed at.

Everyone was wondering at whom that remark was aimed.

The usual practice is not to put 'whom' at the end of the sentence.

Do those two sentences share the same meaning?

Yes.

Thanks for repl
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The verb wonder takes an embedded indirect question.
The direct question is: Who was that remark aimed at? [Note the inversion of that remark (the subject) and was (the verb).]

The corresponding indirect question is: ... who that remark was aimed at ... [Note that there is no subject-verb inversion.]
Therefore, you need to place the indirect question afte
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AnonymousMy teacher said that sentence is the "active voice" of the first sentence
Either: Your teacher is wrong.
Or: You misunderstood what your teacher said.
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The active form of Who was that remark aimed at? is Who did someone aim that remark at? -- which is extremely awkward. I don't
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Hi Anon
AnonymousEveryone were wondering who that remrak was aimed at.

Please note that it should be 'remark'.
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Thanks for all of your insightful asnwers.

I checked the answer again today, my teacher said "Everyone was wondering that remrak was aimed at whom." is correct.

What bothers me is that I can't understand why "at whom" can be in the end of the sentence and why "wonder" is not followed by relative pronoun.

Yoong said it's a usual practice not to put 'w
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I'll **** in here without reading the rest of your thread. Your teacher is not right. 'Everyone was wondering that remark was aimed at whom' is unacceptable. Use one of these:

Everyone was wondering who that remark was aimed at.
Everyone was wondering at whom that remark was aimed.

'That' here is a demonstrative (an adjective). No 'that'
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Hi Anon
AnonymousYoong said it's a usual practice not to put 'whom' at the end of the sentence.
I said that because that sentence sounds awkward to me. I have never seen it used that way.

I didn't want to insist that it is wrong because another member may say that it is okay. For example, your teacher says that the sentence is fine.
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