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Anonymous Posted 16 years ago
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Is this sentence correct? Access to its contents should be limited to those whomhave signed the agreement. Or should it be Access to its contents should be limited to those to whom have signed the agreement.

Which is proper?
  

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The first sentence is more grammatically correct and clearer to understand. Yet, I would substitute "whom" with "who", as "who" is the subject of the clause "who have signed the agreement". Access to its contents should be limited to those who have signed the agreement.

— Vocabfish

  • The first sentence is more grammatically correct and clearer to understand.
  • Yet, I would substitute "whom" with "who", as "who" is the subject of the clause "who have signed the agreement".
  • Access to its contents should be limited to those who have signed the agreement.
  • - Vocabfish
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The first sentence is more grammatically correct and clearer to understand. Yet, I would substitute "whom" with "who", as "who" is the subject of the clause "who have signed the agreement".

Access to its contents should be limited to those who have signed the agreement.

- Vocabfish
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