Sinister: yumm... grammar

[M R McDonald]

> it also helps to remember that "whom" always follows a
> prepositional phrase.

Not quite.  See me post, sent before I read this one, where I use the
sentence: "She and me, whom she hates, went to the park."  (It was
something like that.)  The sentence is incorrect grammatically, but not
because of the "whom she despises" part.  "Whom" is simply the objective
form of "who."  It does not require a preposition.

This is getting out of hand, isn't it?

mars at pe.net


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