murky days on the WHO/WHOM front

[Beverly Flanigan]

I was surprised to hear recently "all who had ...."  Still another variant!

At 11:41 AM 3/29/02 -0500, you wrote:
>The appearance of this subordinate clause on another post this morning:-
>"all of whom had a great sense of humor".... which could have been just as
>correctly expressed as  "who all had a great sense of humor"... brings
>several thoughts to mind:  (1) no wonder people get confused! and (2) it's
>easy to understand why someone might suppose that if syntactic analysis and
>close examination for meaning  combined can't lead to one *correct* result,
>the whole enterprise must just be so much BB-stacking.
>A. Murie


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