Another SOTA?

[Wilson Gray]

Annoyingly enough, A, as I was going to bed, I suddenly realized that,
strictly speaking, the sentence, though odd, was acually perfectly
okay. I see that "le Bon Dieu," as the French say, chose not to answer
my quick prayer that no one else  notice. Sigh! :-)

-Wilson

On 6/8/06, sagehen <sagehen at westelcom.com> wrote:
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> >"Who I am today is _whom_ I've always wanted to be."
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> >-Wilson Gray
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>  Is  the thought or the expression the candidate for SOTAcy?
>
> The "whom" could be defended under the  Subject of an Infinitive is in the
> Accusative case,  which sometimes does & sometimes apparently doesn't apply
> in English grammar.  We had some discussion of this  years ago....maybe '99
> or 2000.
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> I wanted her to become an astrophysicist.
> I've always wanted me to become who I am today.
>
> Can't say much for the felicity of either of these ways of saying this!
> AM
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