From: Carl W. Conrad (cwconrad@artsci.wustl.edu)
Date: Fri Dec 15 1995 - 11:23:36 EST
At 9:12 AM 12/15/95, Mike Adams wrote:
>>Examples:
>>- You're the person to whom I spoke. [Formal & Informal: object
>territory]
>>- *You're the person to who I spoke. [Ungrammatical: object territory]
>>- You're the person whom I spoke to. [Formal: objective case concord]
>>- You're the person who I spoke to. [Informal: subject territory]
>>
>I was taught never to use a preposition to end a sentence with.
About which spake Winston Churchill: "This is the sort of nonsense up with
which I will not put!"
Carl W. Conrad
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