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Anonymous Posted 15 years ago
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A Japanese lady has asked me to correct her English.
She wrote something like, "I have nobody whom to ask for food donations."
I don't use "whom" very often when I write in English. Would the following correction be okay?
I don't have anyone from whom I could request food donations.
Is my use of "from whom" okay?
Thank-you for your help. She is in Japan.
She wrote something like, "I have nobody whom to ask for food donations."
I don't use "whom" very often when I write in English. Would the following correction be okay?
I don't have anyone from whom I could request food donations.
Is my use of "from whom" okay?
Thank-you for your help. She is in Japan.
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Anonymous I don't have anyone from whom I could request food donations. Is my use of "from whom" okay? Yes.
- Anonymous I don't have anyone from whom I could request food donations.
- Is my use of "from whom" okay?
- Yes.
- That's fine.
- But you can also just leave out "whom" in the original: I have nobody to ask for food donations.
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AnonymousI don't have anyone from whom I could request food donations.Yes. That's fine. But you can also just leave out "whom" in the original:
Is my use of "from whom" okay?
I have nobody to ask for food donations.
Or, another version without "whom":
There's nobody I can ask for food donations.
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