Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site opus.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!cmcl2!seismo!hao!cires!nbires!opus!rcd From: rcd@opus.UUCP (Dick Dunn) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: "I don't care who this offends!!" Message-ID: <553@opus.UUCP> Date: Tue, 19-Jun-84 03:04:46 EDT Article-I.D.: opus.553 Posted: Tue Jun 19 03:04:46 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 21-Jun-84 06:22:27 EDT References: <281@oddjob.UChicago.UUCP> Organization: NBI, Boulder Lines: 25 (Moved from net.jokes - neither this article nor its parent is a real joke.) >> YOU BET I'M OFFENDED! THAT'S "I don't care *WHOM* this offends" !!!! > >... ... > For > Meet the Preposition Family: From --> WHOM > Of >... ... > >"I don't care *who* this offends" is correct grammar. > > From the sixth-grade desk of Trisha O Tuama Well, it's always nice to see that someone will post a grammar counter-flame without knowing correct grammar. I might as well assert that the correct form is "I don't care which this offends" for all the thought that goes into it. [In case you're honestly wondering, the subject of the clause is "this". The object is "whom"; objective case is required. I know it's unflamely to explain instead of just blindly asserting - too bad!] -- Dick Dunn {hao,ucbvax,allegra}!nbires!rcd (303)444-5710 x3086 ...Cerebus for dictator!