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Anonymous Posted 16 years ago
Grammar

Whomever

a big thank you to whomever left the beautiful plant on my porch! Is this right?
  

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' to whoever left the beautiful plant on my porch. 'Whoever' is the subject of the verb 'left'.

  • ' to whoever left the beautiful plant on my porch.
  • 'Whoever' is the subject of the verb 'left'.
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A big 'thank you!' to whoever left the beautiful plant on my porch.

'Whoever' is the subject of the verb 'left'.
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No, it is not correct, whomever needs to be the object of the verb no the subject so I would say

a big thank you to whoever left the beautiful plant on my porch.

In this case whoever is the subject of the verb "leave" so it is grammatically correct

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