another Mounce mistake

Mark Wilson emory2oo2 at hotmail.com
Fri Nov 1 08:26:31 EST 2002


Mitch:

Mounce uses this example on page 110:

"Give the Bible to whomever asks for it."

Note his mistake here (whomever). And to boot, he even
states that the clause must be viewed as a unit.

Just to clarify, had the sentence ended with "whomever,"
then the objective case would be correct, however, WITHIN this
clause, "whoever" must be in the subjective case.

I must admit, I didn't figure this out myself; it was pointed
out to me by an English grammarian.

Mark Wilson

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