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Anonymous Posted 10 years ago
Grammar

Who or whom?

The primary stucture is:
That was the man who hit his wife.

If I were to expand by adding eye witnesses who saw the incident, which is correct?

1.That was the man who, eye witnesses said, hit his wife.

2. That was the man whom eye witnesses said hit his wife.
  

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Anonymous If I were to expand by adding eye witnesses who saw the incident, which is correct? That was the man who, eyewitnesses said, hit his wife. The insertion of the comment phrase does not affect the grammar.

  • Anonymous If I were to expand by adding eye witnesses who saw the incident, which is correct?
  • That was the man who, eyewitnesses said, hit his wife.
  • The insertion of the comment phrase does not affect the grammar.
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AnonymousIf I were to expand by adding eye witnesses who saw the incident, which is correct?
1.That was the man who, eyewitnesses said, hit his wife.

The insertion of the comment phrase does not affect the grammar.
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Nevertheless, don't both mean the same?
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One is bad grammar, that is all.

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