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Pructus Posted 16 years ago
Grammar

Whichever readers (WHO) thought that they'd try

Whereupon, after that graceless burst of bad news, I'm betting that most of whichever readers thought that maybe this year they'd try starting out linearly with the editor's intro have now decided to stop or just flip ahead to Jo Ann Beard's 'Werner', the collection's first essay.

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The underlined part, isn't it grammatically wrong? I think it should be, "most of whichever readers who thought that....", without omitting 'WHO'.

Is the quoted one simply wrong or is it some kind of colloquial or customary one among native speakers?
  

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pructus isn't it grammatically wrong? No, it's not grammatically wrong. whichever works a little differently than you were expecting.

— CalifJim

  • pructus isn't it grammatically wrong?
  • No, it's not grammatically wrong.
  • whichever works a little differently than you were expecting.
  • In fact, it would be wrong to include who , which , or that .
  • whichever doesn't take a who, a which, or a that .
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pructus isn't it grammatically wrong?
No, it's not grammatically wrong. whichever works a little differently than you were expecting. In fact, it would be wrong to include who, which, or that. whichever doesn't take a who, a which, or a that. These are regarded as already included in the meaning of th
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Thanks a lot, CalifJim....

I see....

I've been missing some important one....
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