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When the Duke of Bournemouth dies and leaves his entire estate and businesses to an American called Henry (Rick Moranis), whom he thinks is his son who was lost as a baby and then found again all hell breaks loose.

What is wrong with this?
  

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[nq:1]When the Duke of Bournemouth dies and leaves his entire estate and businesses to an American called Henry (Rick Moranis), whom he thinks is his son who was lost as a baby and then found again all **** breaks loose. [/nq] whom

  • [nq:1]When the Duke of Bournemouth dies and leaves his entire estate and businesses to an American called Henry (Rick Moranis), whom he thinks is his son who was lost as a baby and then found again all **** breaks loose.
  • [/nq] whom
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[nq:1]When the Duke of Bournemouth dies and leaves his entire estate and businesses to an American called Henry (Rick Moranis), whom he thinks is his son who was lost as a baby and then found again all **** breaks loose. What is wrong with this?[/nq]
whom
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[nq:1]When the Duke of Bournemouth dies and leaves his entire estate and businesses to an American called Henry (Rick Moranis), whom he thinks is his son who was lost as a baby and then found again all **** breaks loose. What is wrong with this?[/nq]
They should've come up with something more original.
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[nq:1]When the Duke of Bournemouth dies and leaves his entire estate and businesses to an American called Henry (Rick Moranis), whom he thinks is his son who was lost as a baby and then found again all **** breaks loose. What is wrong with this?[/nq]
After taxes, the estate and business won't be worth the plane ticket for Rick. The **** breaking loose is a description of the flurry of activity
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[nq:1]When the Duke of Bournemouth dies and leaves his entire estate and businesses to an American called Henry (Rick Moranis), whom he thinks is his son who was lost as a baby and then found again all **** breaks loose. What is wrong with this?[/nq]
There's no such person as the Duke of Bournemouth.
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[nq:1]When the Duke of Bournemouth dies and leaves his entire estate and businesses to an American called Henry (Rick Moranis), whom he thinks is his son who was lost as a baby and then found again all **** breaks loose. What is wrong with this?[/nq]
If you elevate the subordinate clause to a full sentence, and replace the relative pronoun with a personal pronoun, you can clearly see what is w
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Django Cat filted:
[nq:2]When the Duke of Bournemouth dies and leaves his entire ... again all **** breaks loose. What is wrong with this?[/nq]
[nq:1]There's no such person as the Duke of Bournemouth.[/nq]
And Rick Moranis is a Canadian, not an American..

ObAUE, if you're the sort who will countenance only one comma in that entire sentence, it should be after "again", not wher
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[nq:2]When the Duke of Bournemouth dies and leaves his entire ... again all **** breaks loose. What is wrong with this?[/nq]
[nq:1]whom[/nq]
Also needs a comma after again.
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[nq:2]When the Duke of Bournemouth dies and leaves his entire ... again all **** breaks loose. What is wrong with this?[/nq]
[nq:1]After taxes, the estate and business won't be worth the planeticket for Rick. The **** breaking loose is a description of the flurryof activity at the Inland Revenue offices.[/nq]
This happened to an English-by-marriage friend of mine: successive German relativ
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[nq:1]Django Cat filted:[/nq]
[nq:2]There's no such person as the Duke of Bournemouth.[/nq]
[nq:1]And Rick Moranis is a Canadian, not an American..[/nq]
Listen, fella, eh? You think Canada is in Antarctica, or someplace, eh?
MIke.
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[nq:2]And Rick Moranis is a Canadian, not an American..[/nq]
[nq:1] Listen, fella, eh? You think Canada is in Antarctica, or someplace, eh?[/nq]
Canadians are not Americans, except in the minds of jejune, adolescent English language students in Buenos Aires, Jakarta, Thessaloniki, Frankfurt, Taipei, Brest, etc.

He said Moranis isn't American. Is there any Canadian who would disagr

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