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Anonymous Posted 12 years ago
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Respect & Fondness ...

This was in a local paper in New Hampshire today, from a local educator: ".... the high school students of Barnstead who I have deepest respect and fondness for academically, intellectually and socially."
It just reads wrong to me. Am I right?
Can you have 'respect & fondness' ... 'academically, intellectually and socially'.
Plus should it have been for 'whom', or is 'who' acceptable'?
Thank YOU. All the best.
  

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The educator probably has the best of intentions, but it's just too many words that don't seem to fit (as you indicated). The who/whom question is still evolving among grammarians, but I would go with whom , especially in this context of an educational situation. If whom is chosen, it should come immediately after the preposition for .

— Philip

  • The educator probably has the best of intentions, but it's just too many words that don't seem to fit (as you indicated).
  • The who/whom question is still evolving among grammarians, but I would go with whom , especially in this context of an educational situation.
  • If whom is chosen, it should come immediately after the preposition for .
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The educator probably has the best of intentions, but it's just too many words that don't seem to fit (as you indicated). The who/whom question is still evolving among grammarians, but I would go with whom, especially in this context of an educational situation. If whom is chosen, it should come immediately after the preposition for.
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It just needs to be restructured slightly. The dash is used to indicate a pause in speech. (It was probably a transcript from a speech.)

...the high school students of Barnstead for whom I have deepest respect and fondness— academically, intellectually and socially.
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