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Anonymous Posted 16 years ago
Grammar

Whoever - conjunction?

Hi. Please tell me if the word "whoever" is a conjunction or not in this sentence.

Whoever doing this is the one who is going to get punished.

As a different question, I think we could write "going to be punished" instead of "going to get punished" (although that would create a slight difference in meaning and effect). To me, the phrase "get punished" in the context it is used adds "dynamic nature" (I am not sure I have used the quoted phrase "dynamic nature" to reflect what I wanted to say, though).
  

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Hi, Please tell me if the word "whoever" is a conjunction or not in this sentence. No, 'whoever' is a pronoun. Whoever doing this is the one who is going to get punished.

  • Hi, Please tell me if the word "whoever" is a conjunction or not in this sentence.
  • No, 'whoever' is a pronoun.
  • Whoever doing this is the one who is going to get punished.
  • 'Whoever doing this' is not correct.
  • Here are a few correct versions.
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Hi,

Please tell me if the word "whoever" is a conjunction or not in this sentence. No, 'whoever' is a pronoun.

Whoever doing this is the one who is going to get punished.

'Whoever doing this' is not correct. Here are a few correct versions.

Whoever does this is going to get punished. '

Whoever' suggests that someone will do it.

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Thank you for your help.
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Hi. I took a look at this post again and this time I have an additional question.

Would you say this is incorrect? Please look at the underlined sentence. I changed the original sentence "Whoever doing this is the one who is going to get punished" by adding the word "is" to the sentence.

Hypothetical situation:

(in a classroom)

The teacher is not in the classro

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