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To: jbe who wrote (2974)	6/22/1999 7:57:00 PM
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<<<"I wonder whom he bribed to get the contract?" This may seem at first similar to the previous example, but here "whom" is not the subject of any verb in the sentence; rather it is part of the noun clause which itself is the object of the verb "wonder.">>> Dropping in on this discussion a little late; catching up on unread posts. In this text you quoted, something strikes me as wrong. What do you think?.... I think the bolded part of the above is incorrect. I see 'whom' as the choice here (instead of 'who') because the word is indeed the object of a verb in the sentence, ie 'bribed,' not because it is part of a noun clause which is the object of the verb 'wonder'. You can recreate the sentence retaining a noun clause as the object of the verb 'wonder' thusly: "I wonder who bribed him to get the contract?" But the 'whom' must change to 'who,' (object-of-'wonder' notwithstanding,) because it is now the subject of the verb 'bribed.' And while I'm picking, I bolded 'which' above because I think it ought to be 'that.' Maybe a Brit wrote the text; they do this a lot.