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To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (1024)	4/1/1998 8:20:00 PM
From: jbe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4711

One more vote for: "Are you WHO I think you are?" It is true that "whom" is generally falling out of use, even where grammar would seem to require it. But here, grammar does not call for the use of "whom"; in fact, it expressly forbids it! The reason was cited by a previous poster: "who" is not the object of "think," but (along with "you") the subject of "are" (as in the question: "Who are you?"). Subjective case, in other words, not objective case. I tried to find the "rule" you are looking for in my 3rd edition Fowler, but no luck. You're bound to find it in some other reference grammar. jbe