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Vsuresh Posted 9 years ago
Grammar
Who/whom
Please tell me which is correct here.
..... (Who/Whom)can I go out with next Sunday?
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It's With whom can I go out ...? so you might think it should be Whom can I go out with ...? But when Whom occurs alone at the beginning of a question, it is reduced to Who ...?
- It's With whom can I go out ...?
- so you might think it should be Whom can I go out with ...?
- But when Whom occurs alone at the beginning of a question, it is reduced to Who ...?
- To native speakers, Whom ...?
- sounds excessively formal.
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It's With whom can I go out ...? so you might think it should be Whom can I go out with ...? But when Whom occurs alone at the beginning of a question, it is reduced to Who ...?
To native speakers, Whom ...? sounds excessively formal. My guess is that only one speaker in several thousand would say it.
CJ
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